List of Figures

• Single-slit experiment
• Intensity as a function of observation angle for a single-slit is constant
• Double-slit interference experiment
• Double-slit interference experiment: enlarged view
• Intensity as a function of observation angle for a double-slit experiment
• Interference experiment with N finite slits
• Intensity as a function of observation angle for an N-slit experiment for the case N=6. In this case, principle maxima appear in the location of every sixth minima, so that there are five minima between principle maxima, and thus four lesser maxima between principle maxima.
• Analysis of diffraction experiment with slit of finite width
• Intensity as a function of observation angle for a finite-slit experiment
• N finite-slit interference experiment
• Intensity as a function of observation angle for an experiment with N slits of finite width, where N is large (N=10) and the slits are spaced four times further apart than they are wide, d/a=3. Note how this pattern has every third principle maxima (except the central maximum) wiped away.