Huygens’s principle is a conceptual idea conveyed to you by means of a whole lot of words and diagrams but as far as facilitation of understanding of an observed phenomenon, we only used it: a) to help understand why light travels forward. b) in regard to the Young’s double slit experiment to justify treating the slits in the two slit mask as point sources (actually line sources viewed end on) from which light emanated in all forward directions.

Regarding 2-slit interference, when we say that a maximum occurs at an angle, the angle is the angle between what and what? a) The screen and the beam. b) The mask and the line on which the intensity of the light is a maximum. c) The straight-ahead direction and the line on which the intensity of the light is a maximum.

In a Young’s double slit experiment, does a particular maximum occur only at the screen or does it occur essentially everywhere along a line segment extending from the mask to the screen? a) Only at the screen. b) Everywhere along the specified line segment.

Plane waves of a single wavelength of light are normally incident on a double slit. The center of a screen that is normal to the initial direction of travel of the light is in the "straight ahead" direction. A total of 9 bright fringes are visible on the screen. What is the order of the highest order fringe that can be seen? a. First order. b. Third order. c. Fifth order. d. Seventh order. e. Ninth order. f. None of the above.

In the expression m l = d sin(q ) relevant to two-slit interference, the d is: a) The center-to-center slit separation. b) The path difference traveled by light from one slit to a particular point on the screen as compared to light from the other slit. c) The distance from the mask with the double slit in it to the screen. d) A differential operator. e) The width of the screen. f) The distance from the crest of one wave to the trough of the next.

Consider two double slit experiments, A, and B, identical in every respect, except that in experiment B, the slit spacing is smaller. On the screen: a) The fringes are farther apart in experiment B than they are in experiment A . b) The fringes are closer together in experiment B than they are in experiment A .

Consider two double slit experiments, A, and B, identical in every respect, except that in experiment B, the screen is farther away from the double slit. On the screen: a) The fringes are farther apart in experiment B than they are in experiment A . b) The fringes are closer together in experiment B than they are in experiment A .

When we talk about completely destructive interference in the context of the Young’s double slit experiment, what exactly is it that is adding up to zero? a) The wavelengths of the waves. b) The amplitudes of the waves. c) Electric and magnetic fields.