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double-slit experiment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables
dou-ble-s-lit -ex-per-i-ment
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
8
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An experiment demonstrating that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves and particles, regarded as evidence for the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. A coherent light source, such as a laser beam, illuminates a plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate, where the wave nature of light causes bright and dark bands due to interference.

Inflected Forms

double-slit experiments (plural)

Questions

What does double-slit experiment mean?
An experiment demonstrating that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves and particles, regarded as evidence for the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. A coherent light source, such as a laser beam, illuminates a plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate, where the wave nature of light causes bright and dark bands due to interference.

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