Interference Experiments in 18th and 19th Centuries

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What principle characterizes interference experiments with light in the 18th and 19th centuries?

  • Particle-optical methods
  • Electromagnetic methods
  • Wave-optical methods (correct)
  • Chemical methods

What type of light interference method involves the creation of two interfering light bundles from a source?

  • No-beam interference
  • Two-beam interference (correct)
  • Multi-beam interference
  • Single-beam interference

In what year did A. Fresnel introduce a method that involved making a light bundle divergent with a lens and refracting it at two prisms to create coherent partial bundles?

  • 1901
  • 1860
  • 1799
  • 1826 (correct)

Which optical element is used to make the light bundle divergent before being refracted at two prisms?

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What kind of phenomena do the two coherent partial bundles exhibit when superimposed in certain areas?

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