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What is the relation between phase difference and path difference ? The path difference at a point on the screen from two coherent sources is `5lambda//2`. Describe the possiblities of constructive and destructive interference at that point if the phase difference between the sources is either (i) `pi` or (ii) `2 pi`.

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