Angel is experimenting with a diffraction grating of unknown spacing. He is looking to determine thewavelength of the light in the emission spectrum of a gas and finds that a light having a known wavelengthof 623.1nm is deflected by 43.8 ° away from the central maximum in the second order by this grating. Lightof the wavelength to be measured is deflected by 45.4° away from the central maximum in the second order.What is the wavelength of this light in nanometers? Please give your answer as a whole number.

Given Data The known wavelength of the light is:λ=623.1nm=623.1×10-9 m The angle of deflection of…

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