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What is the effect on the interference fringes in a Young's double-slit experiment due to each of the following operations :
the (monochromatic) source is replaced by another (monochro- matic) source of shorter wavelength,

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The separation of the fringes (and also angular separation) decreases. See, however, the condition mentioned in
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