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What happens to the interference pattern if the two slits in Young's experiment are illuminated by two independent sources such as two sodium lamps S and S' as shown in figure

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Two sets of interference fringes overlap

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No fringes are observed

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The intensity of the bright fringes is doubled

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The intensity of the bright fringes becomes four times

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