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Grade 12General Physics

What are coherent sources of light ? Why are coherent sources required to obt in sustained interference pattern ?

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Twosourcesare said to becoherentwhen the waves emitted from them have the same frequency and constant phase difference. Interference from such waves happen all the time, the randomly phasedlightwaves constantly produce bright and dark fringes at every point