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How does the single-slit diffraction pattern look in comparison to the double-slit interference pattern? Is it...

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How does the single-slit diffraction pattern look in comparisonto the double-slit interference pattern? Is it possible to have adouble-slit pattern without the single-slit pattern overlaid?

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One way of understanding this which has always had intuitive appeal to me is the socalled Huygens Principle which basically states that every point on a wavefront can be considered a point source for a new spherical wave and that the    See Answer
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