One slit

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This experiment allows you to watch the diffraction through a slit when it is not so narrow to consider it a punctual source.

To try to simulate this experiment with the same previous tools we assume that the slit is formed by a lot of punctual sources (N).

We get the interference pattern on a screen parallel to the line of the punctual sources and far from them.

Scheme of the simulation

 
A: width of the slit, in nanometers.
l: wavelength of the light, in nanometers. 
Y: central interval of the screen that we observe, in centimeters.
L: distance between the slits and the screen, in meters. (L >= 1)

We can change these parameters with the window of settings of the experiment when we do a simulation.

 
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