Double slit interference

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

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Each click to thebutton will open a new window. Try it!

You can change:

1. You can change size of the popup window.


2. distance between slits, initial value = 150


3. 
   wavelength of plane wave, initial value=15


4. Hit the "Start" button inside the window will start the animation


5. You can also drag one of the slit to change distance between slits


6. If you click or drag the LEFT mouse , the animation suspend. animation resume when it is released.


distances from both slits to the mouse (d1,d2) are shown in the "texField"


with format "d1 - d2 = path difference" , numbers are divided by wave length


If you click or drag the LEFT mouse , the animation suspend. Click right mouse button again to resume.


7. Close the created window to Quit.

Please chec out Effect of a Medium on a Double Slit Interference Pattern to view spectrum for visible light.

The following is a demostration with microwave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO2yFC7_k2s

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Subject: double-slit applet
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:45:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "James Bo Begole" <begolej@simon.cs.vt.edu>
Reply-To: "James `Bo' Begole" <begolej@vt.edu>
To: hwang@phy03.phy.ntnu.edu.tw
I liked to older version of the double slit applet better. The interface
on the old one was much easier to use, although it was slower to run. I
can't map the frequency to a color in my head. Can you put up a link to
your old version?

Why am I interested in your applet? My interest stems from our work on
collaborative learning systems. I have a system called Flexible JAMM (Java
Applets Made Multiuser) that allows the shared use of single-user applets,
such as yours. Do you mind if we use the old version to test how
difficult it will be for a developer to make an applet that can be used in
this system?

 Flexible JAMM: http://simon.cs.vt.edu/jamm

  -Bo

[Calistes]

Dear sir
This is a nice and suitable applet for the demo. Again in this applet if there is a vertical line like a screen and the indications of the points where the anti nodal and nodal lines meet this line, like in the Young's expt. i think the applet would have been more informative
javascript:emoticon(':roll:')
Rolling Eyes

[murray anderson]

Excellent applet - for use in physics classes on light and sound..............well done.

[saurav verma]

can u pls tell me how is intensity(maximum & minimum) related to the fringe width???

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

Please check out the following simulation first : single/multiple slit diffraction/interference

It will show how the intensity changed with several parameters (slit width, slit separations... etc).

[mikephys]

Thank you for this applet.  This is exactly the illustration I needed in conjunction with our ripple tank demonstration of two-source interference.

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

Here is another EJS version of the same applet.

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