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← ScienceWhich outcome occurs when a wide light source illuminates a double-slit?
A)Fringes wash out, low visibility✓
B)Sharper interference fringes appear
C)Diffraction effects become negligible
D)Polarization increases fringe contrast
💡 Explanation
With a wide source each point creates its own interference pattern, but off-axis sources shift fringe positions; therefore, incoherence causes fringe blurring via superposition, rather than creating sharper or only diffraction, because source coherence is critical.
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