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Consider the following dialogue:
Student 1: "l don’t see why there are minima when there's only a single silt—I think you need two waves to have destructive interference,”
Student 2: "You can model the single slit as many Identical smaller interfering 'slits,' each small enough to act like a point; source. The first minimum occurs where the path length difference from the two ‘slits’ at the edges of the single slit is
Do you agree with student 2’s response to student 1? Discuss your reasoning with your partners.
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