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Explain why two flashlights held close together do not produce an interference pattern on a distant screen?

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The light form the flashlights consists of many different wavelengths (that is why it is white) with random time difference between the light wave, therefore there is no coherence between the two sources, and no possibility of an interference pattern.
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