YDSE: Fringe Width & Fringe Positions
Two coherent point sources and are separated by a small distance as shown. The fringes obtained on the screen will be

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Answer: (d)
- and lie on the line perpendicular to the screen, so the arrangement is symmetric about this axis.
- Path difference at a point on the screen depends only on its distance from the foot of this axis: .
- Points with equal path difference lie on a circle centred on the axis, so each fringe is a circle.
- So the answer is (d) concentric circles.