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written by the Kansas State Physics Education Research Group and Dean Zollman
This resource illustrates the interference patterns for diffraction through double slits.  A series of sources, electrons, protons, neutrons, photons, and pions, can be chosen for the virtual experiment.  The energy of the source, the slit separation, and the flux rate can all be adjusted.  The diffraction patterns are built from random flashes on a screen.  The screens can be saved for comparison of different experiments.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Optics
- Interference
Quantum Physics
- Foundations and Measurement Theory
- Probability, Waves, and Interference
- Lower Undergraduate
- Upper Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Interactive Simulation
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Keywords: interference, matter waves
Record Cloner: Cloned from PSRC Item 1107 March 7, 2004 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated: Oct 09, 2009 by Bruce Mason
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Kansas State Physics Education Research Group and D. Zollman, Double Slit Diffraction, WWW Document, (http://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/vqm/html/doubleslit/index.html).
APA Format
Kansas State Physics Education Research Group, & Zollman, D. (n.d.). Double Slit Diffraction. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from http://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/vqm/html/doubleslit/index.html
Chicago Format
Kansas State Physics Education Research Group, and Dean Zollman. Double Slit Diffraction. http://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/vqm/html/doubleslit/index.html (accessed 21 November 2009).
MLA Format
Kansas State Physics Education Research Group, and Dean Zollman. Double Slit Diffraction. 21 Nov. 2009 <http://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/vqm/html/doubleslit/index.html>.
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