If the screen is moved away from the plane of the slits in a Young's double slit experiment, then the:

If the screen is moved away from the plane of the slits in a Young's double slit experiment, then the:
  1. angular separation of the fringes increases
  2. angular separation of the fringes decreases
  3. linear separation of the fringes increases
  4. linear separation of the fringes decreases

Solution

As per YDSE, $x=\frac{\lambda \mathrm{D}}{d}$, (where, symbols have their usual meanings) If the screen is moving away from the slits then D increases, and hence the fringe width $(x)$ increases.

Asked in: NEET 2022 (Phase 2)

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