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ISBN: 9780137443000

Author: Eugenia Etkina, Gorazd Planinsic

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Chapter 24, Problem 15P

24.3 Gratings: an application of interference

Laser light on grating 1 The 6.30 mm light from a helium-neon laser irradiates a grating. The light then falls on a screen where the first bright spot is separated from the central maximum by 0.51 m. Light of another wavelength of light produces its first bright spot 0.43 m from its central maximum. Determine the second wavelength.

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