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AQA A-Level Physics past-paper questions on 3.12.2.2 Significance of Young’s double slits experiment, 2008–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available.
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All 5 questions on Significance of Young’s double slits experiment, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 3 Turning points, Q03 (6 marks): The work of Fizeau, Foucault, Hertz and Maxwell contributed to our understanding of the nature of light. Fizeau measured the speed of light in air. Foucault con
- June 2023, Paper 3 Turning points, Q03.4 (3 marks): Describe a demonstration using visible light that can be performed in a school laboratory to show that Newton’s theory is not correct. [3 marks]
- June 2022, Paper 3 Turning points, Q01.2 (6 marks): The student makes alterations to the apparatus in Figure 1. Figure 2 shows the red and dark fringes that the student now observes on the screen. Figure 2 Identi
- June 2015, PHYA5 Turning points (old spec), Q2(a)(iii) (2 marks): Describe and explain the difference in the appearance of the fringes in Young’s double-slit experiment that are predicted by the corpuscular theory and by the w
- June 2011, PHYA5 Turning points (old spec), Q3(b) (6 marks): Young demonstrated that a pattern of alternate bright and dark fringes was observed when light from a narrow single slit passed through double slits, as shown i
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