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YOUNG'S interference experiment is a very difficult one to perform as he describes it. If slits are used for the apertures it requires a distance of two yards from the first slit to the double slit, and two yards from the double slit to the observer, and also a very bright source, the sun or the crater of the electric arc. For this reason the experiment is seldom performed, Fresnel's biprism or mirrors being substituted for it in laboratory courses.
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HOUSTOUN, R. Young's Interference Experiment. Nature 107, 268 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107268c0
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