In a double-slit interference experiment, a wave from one slit arrives at a point on a screen one wavelength behind the wave from the other slit. What is observed at that point?
a. dark fringe
b. bright fringe
c. multicolored fringe
d. gray fringe, neither dark nor bright
Ans: b. bright fringe
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