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Suppose you are observing the interference pattern formed by a Michelson interferometer in a laboratory and a joking colleague holds a lit match in the light path of one arm of the interferometer. Will this match have an effect on the interference pattern?

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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
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ISBN: 9780321625922

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