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If the two slits in Young's double slit experiment are of unequal width, then

  1. A the dark fringes are not perfectly dark
  2. B the bright fringes will have unequal spacing
  3. C the bright fringes will have unequal brightness
  4. D the fringes do not appear
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(A) the dark fringes are not perfectly dark

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Detailed explanation

If \(I_{1} \neq I_{2}\), then minimum energy of the interference pattern,
\(I_{\min }=\left(\sqrt{I_{1}}-\sqrt{I_{2}}\right)^{2}\) is not zero.
Hence, dark fringes are not perfectly dark.