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Cylindrical Waves Passing through a Double Slit

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A plane wave passes through a single slit to generate a cylindrical wave. It passes through a double slit to generate two cylindrical waves, which interfere with each other.

Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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