Analysis Of Young's Double Slit Experiment

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The focus of this report is researching Young’s Double Slit Experiment. With research comes understanding and that understanding will be shown by explaining his experiment in detail differently than other authors decided to explain it. In other words, Young’s Double Slit Experiment will be restated in a different way. This report will also be focused on the reasons behind the results of the experiment. This report is also focused on learning and understanding modern physics and how it affects the world around us, however it is focused on this by allowing exposure to Young’s Double Slit Experiment to get an understanding of what modern physics is like.
In the world of modern physics, there are many unexplainable phenomena, just like in the real world. The result of this experiment is a prime example of this. In this Young’s Double Slit experiment, he wanted to prove whether light was a particle or a wave. This sounds relatively simple as particles have characteristics that are distinctively different from waves. He made sure to test these in his experiment as well, just in case. He t...

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