LINKS: Ch. 5-Models for Light and Sound Ch. 7-Wave Models for Light & Sound Ch. 14-Newton's Laws of Motion |
DEMO OF DOUBLE SLIT INTERFERENCE (Mathematica Player format, 76 kB): Right click on link to save to your disk. This demo lets you control the direction in which the waves move, the wavelength and the distance between the slits. You can experiment to determine how changes in these variables affect the interference pattern. The demo was created in Mathematica 6 and runs under the free Mathematica Player, downloadable from Wolfram Research website: http://www.wolfram.com/player/ DEMO OF DOUBLE SLIT INTERFERENCE (Shockwave Flash format, 2MB): Right click on link to save to your disk. This is a video file that you can "play" in Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. It simply shows how the interference pattern changes when the various variables are changed (direction in which the waves move, the wavelength or the distance between the slits). You can't control the changes in the variables, as you can when playing the demo in the Mathematica Player (above). |
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