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Re: Thomas Young's experiment



p.s. in lieu of a tireless student outside with a mirror, use an
appropriately aligned solar drive telescope *. A negative lens to
collimate or a plane mirror mounted on the tele. would do fine.

bc, the proud owner of a Celestron Telestar Deluxe, which includes one.

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

He published it in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
(London).

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/phil_maths/news/interference.html

The PT has an article on it.

http://www.cavendishscience.org/phys/tyoung/tyoung.htm


bc, who sometimes is lost even with GOOGLE



Ludwik Kowalski wrote:



OOPS, Sorry for typing errors. Here it is corrected:

The well known Young's experiment demonstrating
the wave nature of light was performed in ~1801. I
suppose that light from a large candle was focused





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