Wave Optics

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In a Young's double slit experiment, the source is white light. One of the slits is covered by red filter and another by a green filter. In this case

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Answer: (B) There shall be no interference fringes.

Different colours will have different fringe width. Within a few fringes of red, there will be several fringes of violet.
Also, there will be overlapping of colours.

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