A metallic sheet has a large number of parallel slits, 5.0 mm wide and 20 cm apart. This sheet is used as a diffraction grating for microwaves. A wide parallel beam of microwaves is incident normally on the sheet. What is the smallest microwave frequency for which only the central maximum will occur? ( c = 3.00 × 10 8 m/s) 0.70 GHz 0.50 GHz 2.0 GHz 1.0 GHz 1.5 GHz

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Diffraction of light

In physics, the term diffraction is defined as the bending of light around the corners of the obstacle. As a light ray passes by an aperture, it bends around the edges or through slits, it spreads out through a narrow opening. The diffracted light will produce fringes of bright and dark or colored bands which are labeled as a diffraction pattern.