A plate of thickness made of a material of refractive index is placed in front of one of the slits in a double slit experiment. What should be the minimum thickness which will make the intensity at the centre of the fringe pattern zero?
Intensity at the centre of the pattern will be zero,
if path difference at the centre is .
Now, the path difference introduced by glass plate of thickness is
or .
Therefore, the correct answer is (C).