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3.5 Exercise 44

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Determine what happens to the double-slit interference pattern if one of the slits is covered with a thin, transparent film whose thickness is λ/[2(n−1)]\lambda / \left[2 \left(n - 1\right)\right], where λ\lambda is the wavelength of the incident light and n is the index of refraction of the film.

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