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Activity: Thin film interference

At long last! Your questions about the colours visible on oily puddles, peacock features and soap bubbles are answered. In this activity, you will observe the interference fringe in a soap bubble, understand how thin film fringes are formed, explore how the relative refractive indices change the condition for constructive interference, calculate the film thickness for constructive interference and, overall, understand...

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