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The document describes a simulation that models how light waves diffract and interfere when passing through different shaped apertures or slits. It aims to help students understand how the aperture geometry relates to the diffraction pattern produced and how changing the wavelength or aperture size affects the pattern. The simulation allows students to explore light diffraction through round holes, compare patterns from varying slit sizes to hole sizes, and observe how frequency and wavelength impact the center maxima of interference patterns. Understanding trends in how aperture properties influence diffraction could help predict changes to the diffraction pattern.

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Wave Interference Zayed 2

The document describes a simulation that models how light waves diffract and interfere when passing through different shaped apertures or slits. It aims to help students understand how the aperture geometry relates to the diffraction pattern produced and how changing the wavelength or aperture size affects the pattern. The simulation allows students to explore light diffraction through round holes, compare patterns from varying slit sizes to hole sizes, and observe how frequency and wavelength impact the center maxima of interference patterns. Understanding trends in how aperture properties influence diffraction could help predict changes to the diffraction pattern.

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Waves Interference‌Remote Lab 3 Diffraction

(This‌l‌esson‌is designed f‌ or‌‌a‌‌student‌‌working‌remotely‌.)‌

This lab uses the Waves Interference simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations at University of
Colorado Boulder, under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/wave-interference/latest/wave-interference_en.html

Note about prior learning: Students should have completed Waves Interference Remote Lab ‌2 or
lessons with similar learning goals.

Learning Goals: Students will be able to:


A. Compare light wave patterns made by light passing through slits to passing through
holes.
B. Explain how the aperture geometry relates to the diffraction pattern.
C. Predict how changing the wavelength or aperture size affects the diffraction pattern.

Develop your understanding: Open the Diffraction screen, then explore to see what happens to light
waves when they pass through different shaped holes.

Explain your understanding:

1. Open the full simulation Waves Interference so that you can experiment with both the
Slits and Diffraction screens.
a. Use your ideas from Waves Interference Remote Lab ‌2 about what happens to waves
passing through slits to help make sense of why light passing through a round
hole makes a pattern. Explain what you think is happening including images for
support.
Whenever light goes through to the slides or from a narrow gap, it lighting wave curves in the
edge, and once the superimpose just on display recognizes the phase shift between both the rays
and the maxima and minima on the display, based on the kind of path. As a result, the display
gets brighter in some areas and black in others.

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b. Compare patterns of varying slit size to patterns of varying hole size. Include
images for support.

Because the slit size and hole diameter are inversely proportional, if we raise the slit size, the
hole diameter decreases, and if we lower the slit size, the hole diameter increases. In other words,
as the size of the spacing is increased in the deviation test, the breadth of the band drops while
the flexibility of the center band rises.
When a result, as the size of the divide grows larger, the influence of the deviation decreases.

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c. Compare patterns of varying frequency through slits to patterns of varying
wavelength through holes. Include images for support.

This wavelength of light is specifically correlated to the width of center maxima. The breadth of
center maxima grows as the wavelength of light rises. When a result, as the frequency rises, the
breadth of the center maxima diminishes. With the breadth of maximum, the intensity of maxima
also increases or decreases. When the wavelength of light is increased, the image becomes blurry
and the maxima are difficult to see, but when the frequency is increased, the image becomes
clear and each maximum can be seen clearly.

2. Experiment with other shapes of apertures (holes) to find trends that help to meet these
goals:
B. Explain how the aperture geometry relates to the diffraction pattern.
Size of apertures affects the diffraction pattern. Size of slit must be smaller than
wavelength of light used.
A > Wavelength
If we can ignore the diffraction pattern, then the light travels in a straight line.
Asino = wavelength
The ray optics becoming valid

C. Predict how changing the wavelength or aperture size affects the diffraction pattern.

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Write a summary of your understanding and include images for support.

When an abstract is placed in the path of light, the light curves, which means the it forms a
shadow for the abstract ( diffraction).

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