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The Physics Teacher -- February 2012 -- Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 116

Binder clip optics bench for Young's double-slit experiment

Dave Van Domelen

Department of Physics and Physical Science, University of Nebraska — Kearney; dvandom@gmail

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Young's double slit is one of the standard experiments in wave optics, but getting the equipment to run it can be pretty expensive, and unless you expect to run a large number of different optics labs, it may not be a worthwhile capital outlay. But with some ingenuity and office supplies, a lot of the “real” equipment can be replicated well enough to let introductory students perform the experiment.

© 2012 American Association of Physics Teachers

KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

measurement by laser beam, physical optics, physics education, student experiments

PACS

  • 01.50.My

    Demonstration experiments and apparatus

  • 42.62.Eh

    Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy

History
Online Jan 2012

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0031-921X (print)  

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$abstract.society.value is a Member of CrossRef American Association of Physics Teachers

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3677290

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