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Young’s double slit experiment
Division of Wavefront
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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Michelson Interferometer
Division of Amplitude
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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Effective Arrangement
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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Fringe Conditions
Dark
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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Circular Fringes
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Central Dark Fringe
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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Fringe Spacing
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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Increasing d
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Measuring Wavelength
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Close Spectral Lines
Example Sodium
589.0 nm and 589.6 nm
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Concordance
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Discordance
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Michelson Interferometer
Observer
Year Arm length (in m)
Michelson
1881
1.2
Michelson & Morley 1887
11.0
Miller
1902-1926
32.0
Michelson et al
1929
25.9
Joos
1930
21.0
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LIGO
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Ligo
Arm Length 4 km
Hanford and Livingston in USA
Caltech, MIT and other US Universities
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Gravitational Waves
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Ligo
Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India
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