If You View a Distant Light Source Through a Narrow

question 110

Multiple Choice

If you view a distant light source through a narrow gap between your fingers, you will see [if you do the experiment properly]

• A) alternating bright and dark lines running perpendicular to your fingers, due to interference between light waves.
• B) alternating bright lines and dark lines running parallel to your fingers, due to interference between light waves.
• C) Donald Duck.
• D) the entire gap is bright [or light], due to constructive interference between light waves.
• E) the entire gap is dark, due to destructive interference between light waves.

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Definitions:

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