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While using a Michelson interferometer (shown in Fig. 37.13), you see a dark circle at the center of the interference pattern, (i) As you gradually move the light source toward the central mirror M0, through a distance λ/2, what do you see? (a) There is no change in the pattern, (b) The dark circle changes into a bright circle. (c) The dark circle changes into a bright circle and then back into a dark circle. (d) The dark circle changes into a bright circle, then into a dark circle, and then into a bright circle. (ii) As you gradually move the moving mirror toward the central mirror M0, through a distance λ/2, what tit) you see? Choose from the same possibilities.
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