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In a Young's double-slit experiment the slits are apart and the screen is away. The whole apparatus is immersed in a liquid of refractive index . A thin transparent sheet of thickness and refractive index is then placed in front of one slit. The central bright fringe is displaced by
- A. away from the covered slit
- B. towards the covered slit
- C. towards the covered slit
- D. towards the covered slit
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Answer: (B) towards the covered slit
The sheet adds an extra optical path in the beam through it, where the surroundings have index . The central fringe moves to the side where the optical path is otherwise shorter, i.e. towards the covered slit, until the geometric path difference in the liquid compensates: . So . With the sheet in air () the shift would be .
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