We begin our lengthy exploration of interference effects for light with the simplest of setups. By allowing a single source of light to be divided into two parts with the use of two thin slits in a s...We begin our lengthy exploration of interference effects for light with the simplest of setups. By allowing a single source of light to be divided into two parts with the use of two thin slits in a screen, we turn one source into two, and the resulting waves can then be made to interfere with each other, resulting in a static pattern.
