Your friend has been given a laser for her birthday. Unfortunately, she did not

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Your friend has been given a laser for her birthday. Unfortunately, she did not receive a manual with it and so she doesn't know the wavelength that it emits. You help her by performing a double-slit experiment, with slits separated by 0.18 mm. You find that the distance between the first bright fringe above the central maximum and the first bright fringe below the central maximum is 4.3mm . The screen is 1.4m away from the slits.

What is the value of m in the equation dsin?=m? for the first bright fringe above the central maximum?

What is the value of m in the equation dsin?=m? for the first bright fringe below the central maximum?

Explanation / Answer

a)? = Yd/mR

     = 4.3*10^-3*0.18*10^-3/2*1.4

     wavelength ? = 276 nm

B) y = 1*276*10^-9*1.4/0.18*10^-3

   y = 0.215m

distance = 0.43 m

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