College Physics
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Chapter 27, Problem 41PE
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(a) What visible wavelength has its fourth-order maximum at an angle of 25.0° when projected on a 25,000-line-per-centimeter diffraction grating? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?
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Unreasonable Results(a) What visible wavelength has its fourth-order maximum at an angle of 25.0O when projected on a 25,000-line-per-centimeter diffraction grating? (b)What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?
(a) What visible wavelength has its fourth-order maximum at an angle of 25.0º when projected on a 25,000-line-per-centimeter diffraction grating? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?
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