Learning From The Right People : FootSteps

On 19th March, Thursday, Students’ Alumni Cell, IIT Kharagpur had organized the event FootSteps. Its objective was to provide a platform for the undergraduate students to interact with the soon-to-be alumni and hear from them their own success stories. The event was also a springboard for the launch of Student- Alumni Mentorship Programme which assigns alumni mentors to students. Atal Ashutosh Agarwal, Finance Head of the Student's Alumni Cell and a contesting candidate for the post of Vice President, Technology Students’ Gymkhana opened the proceedings by informing the audience about the Mentorship Program and then introducing the speakers. There were five speakers at the event. Read on to find out what they had to say.

Interference Of Light Waves: Young's Double Slit Experiment

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Fundamental Concept

Light and other Electromagnetic Waves have dual character, i.e. they show properties of both matter and waves. Young's Double Slit Experiment is a proof of the Wave Nature of Light while The Photoelectric Effect proves the partical Nature of Light.

The basic logic as I understand it is that, when particles meet at a point, they collide. When two waves meet at a point they interfere. It is like drawing two graphs on the same graph paper and then getting the resultant.

If two waves interfere at a point, then there Amplitudes are related as :

A_net = A₁ + A₂