Coherent light of wavelength 504 nm traveling rightward from the left passes through a vertical screen with two thin slits that are a distance d = 0.0399 mm apart. After passing through the two slits, the light spreads out in light and dark spots on another vertical screen 73.0 cm away on the right. How far away along this screen from the center of the central bright spot (central fringe) is: (a) the SECOND bright fringe adjacent to (i.e., next to) the central bright fringe. IN OTHER WORDS, y2 =? (b) the FOURTH bright fringe (not counting the central bright fringe.) IN OTHER WORDS, y4 =? (c) Draw a ray diagram explaining the problem. Show the interfering rays traveling from the two slits on the left to the screen on the right.

Coherent light of wavelength 504 nm traveling rightward from the left passes through a vertical screen with two thin slits that are a distance d = 0.0399 mm apart. After passing through the two slits, the light spreads out in light and dark spots on another vertical screen 73.0 cm away on the right. How far away along this screen from the center of the central bright spot (central fringe) is: (a) the SECOND bright fringe adjacent to (i.e., next to) the central bright fringe. IN OTHER WORDS, y2 =? (b) the FOURTH bright fringe (not counting the central bright fringe.) IN OTHER WORDS, y4 =? (c) Draw a ray diagram explaining the problem. Show the interfering rays traveling from the two slits on the left to the screen on the right.

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