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If a wave from one slit of a Young's double-slit set-up arrives at a point on the screen one-half wavelength behind the wave from the other slit, what is observed at that point?
 a. dark fringe
  c. gray fringe, neither dark nor bright
  b. bright fringe
  d. multi-colored fringe

Question 2

Interference effects observed in the early 1800s were instrumental in supporting a concept of the existence of which property of light?
 a. electromagnetic character
  c. wave nature
  b. particle nature
  d. polarization



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C



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