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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Young’s double slit experiment

Division of Wavefront

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Michelson Interferometer

Division of Amplitude

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Effective Arrangement

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Fringe Conditions

Dark

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Circular Fringes

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Central Dark Fringe

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Fringe Spacing

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Increasing d

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Measuring Wavelength

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Close Spectral Lines

Example Sodium

589.0 nm and 589.6 nm

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Concordance

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Discordance

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Michelson InterferometerObserver Year Arm length (in m)

Michelson 1881 1.2Michelson & Morley 1887 11.0

Michelson et al 1929 25.9

Joos 1930 21.0

Miller 1902-1926 32.0

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

LIGO

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

LigoArm Length 4 kmHanford and Livingston in USA Caltech, MIT and other US Universities

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Gravitational Waves

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Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 Indiahttp://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/

Ligo


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