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why we have to kept opaqe screen parllel to the two slits in young's double slit experiment?
 

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Hi SAINATHAN! Welcome to PF! :wink:

We don't have to …

but it makes the maths easier, and the picture more symmetric and prettier. :smile:
 
If the rest of the screen wasn't opaque, but was see-thru, you would really no longer have two slits but just ahve a sheet of transparent material with two slits in it. This would result in the fringes and light spots being obscured by all the other light getting through,
 

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