Physics Investigatory

YOUNG'S DOUBLE SPLIT

EXPERIMENT
AND
EFFECT OF DIFFRACTION IN
INTERFERENCE
 Student Profile
Name : Syed Aslah Ahmad Faizi
Class : XII
Section : A
Class Roll No. : 20
Board Roll No. :
Topic : Interference and Diffraction of Light
Submitted to : Mr. Harshit Gera
Date of Submission : 15 January,
2018
Signature of Student
Signature of Teacher

Certificate
This is to certify that Syed Aslah Ahmad Faizi of Class XII-A has

successfully completed the research on the project

Young's Double Split Experiment And Effect Of Diffraction In Interference

under the guidance of Mr. Harshit Gera (Teacher) during the year 2017-18 in

partial fulfillment of physics practical examination conducted by

CBSE, India.
Signature of Subject Teacher Signature of Examiner Stamp of School

Acknowledgement

I would like to express my special thanks and gratitude to

my physics teacher Mr. Harshit Gera for his invaluable
advice and guidance.

I would also like thank Mrs. Sarita Madhok, CEO of the

school, for giving me the golden opportunity to conduct
and present my experiment on the topic
Young's Double Split Experiment And Effect Of
Diffraction In Interference.

Lastly I would like to thank my family for supporting me

in completing my experiment.
 Index

 Student Profile
 Certificate
 Acknowledgement
 Introduction
 Aim
 Theory
 Apparatus
 Procedure
 Observation
 Calculation
 Result
 Sources of error
 Bibliography
 Introduction
|Young's Double Slit Experiment|

Thomas Young, an English physician, first conducted the double slit experiment in
1801. In this experiment light was passed through two slits and an interference
pattern was observed on a screen placed a few metres away. In order to interfere
the lights from the slits must be coherent. The wavelength and frequency is of the
pattern as shown in fig.(i).

|Single Slit Diffraction|

Light is supposed to travel in a straight line. But like sound, when it approaches a
barrier which of the same order as its wavelength, i.e., a few tenths of a millimetre
it tends to bend around it. This can be seen by doing a slit experiment. When light
is passed through a single slit a diffraction pattern can be observed. The
wavelength and amplitude is of the pattern as shown in fig.(ii).
|Diffraction in Interference|

When a double slit experiment is actually done the interference pattern observed is
actually different than the one shown in fig.(i). That is mainly because of the fact
that light also diffracts individually from each slit thus forming a different
interference pattern. The pattern formed in of the interference amplitude enveloped
inside the diffraction amplitude as shown in fig.(iii).
 Aim
To perform Young's double slit experiment and find the fringe-width of the
interference bands.

Theory