Q.Two independent monochromatic sources cannot act as coherent sources, why?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Step 1. Coherent sources require a constant phase relationship (fixed, or unchanging with time) between the light waves they emit, alongside matching frequency and waveform.
Step 2. Light from any ordinary source is emitted by a huge number of individual atoms, each emitting in short, independent bursts triggered by random thermal vibrations within the material.
Step 3. Two genuinely separate, independent sources have no physical mechanism linking their individual atoms' emission timings to one another -- each source's phase (relative to the other) jumps around randomly and rapidly, many times over any observable time interval. …
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