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а (рm) 0.78 0.91 1.04 1.82 3.12 5.20 7.80 10.40 15.60 w (m) 2.68 2.09 1.73 0.89 0.51 0.30 0.20 0.15 0.10

а (рm) 0.78 0.91 1.04 1.82 3.12 5.20 7.80 10.40 15.60 w (m) 2.68 2.09 1.73 0.89 0.51 0.30 0.20 0.15 0.10

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Your physics study partner tells you that the width of the central bright band in a single-slit diffraction pattern is inversely proportional to the width of the slit. This means that the width of the central maximum increases when the width of the slit decreases. The claim seems counterintuitive to you, so you make measurements to test it. You shine monochromatic laser light with wavelength λ onto a very narrow slit of width a and measure the width w of the central maximum in the diffraction pattern that is produced on a screen 1.50 m from the slit. (By “width,” you mean the distance on the screen between the two minima on either side of the central maximum.) Your measurements are given in the table. (a) If w is inversely proportional to a, then the product aw is constant, independent of a. For the data in the table, graph aw versus a. Explain why aw is not constant for smaller values of a. (b) Use your graph in part (a) to calculate the wavelength λ of the laser light. (c) What is the angular position of the first minimum in the diffraction pattern for (i) a = 0.78 µm and (ii) a = 15.60 µm?

а (рm) 0.78 0.91 1.04 1.82 3.12 5.20 7.80 10.40 15.60 w (m) 2.68 2.09 1.73 0.89 0.51 0.30 0.20 0.15 0.10
Transcribed Image Text:а (рm) 0.78 0.91 1.04 1.82 3.12 5.20 7.80 10.40 15.60 w (m) 2.68 2.09 1.73 0.89 0.51 0.30 0.20 0.15 0.10
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