Young's experiment

Young's experiment

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      classical investigation into the nature of light, an investigation that provided the basic element in the development of the wave theory and was first performed by the English physicist and physician Thomas Young (Young, Thomas) in 1801. In this experiment, Young identified the phenomenon called interference (interference fringe). Observing that when light from a single source is split into two beams, and the two beams are then recombined, the combined beam shows a pattern of light and dark fringes, Young concluded that the fringes result from the fact that when the beams recombine their peaks and troughs may not be in phase (in step). When two peaks coincide they reinforce each other, and a line of light results; when a peak and a trough coincide they cancel each other, and a dark line results. English scientists did not accept Young's wave theory until the work of the French physicists François Arago and Augustin-Jean Frésnel had confirmed it many years later.

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