An interference pattern from a two-slit experiment with light has a spacing between the central (brightest) peak and the neighboring peak of 3.3 mm. The distance from the slits to the screen is 1.4 m and the wavelength of the light is 600 nm. a) What is the angle between the central maximum and its neighbor? Express your answer in degrees. ____ ° b) What is slit spacing, d? Please give this distance in millimeters. ____ mm

An interference pattern from a two-slit experiment with light has a spacing between the central (brightest) peak and the neighboring peak of 3.3 mm. The distance from the slits to the screen is 1.4 m and the wavelength of the light is 600 nm. a) What is the angle between the central maximum and its neighbor? Express your answer in degrees. ° b) What is slit spacing, d? Please give this distance in millimeters. mm

University Physics Volume 3

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Chapter4: Diffraction

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