Chapter 36: Q89P (page 1114)
A diffraction grating 3.00 cm wide produces the second order at 33.0° with light of wavelength 600 nm. What is the total number of lines on the grating?
Short Answer
The number of diffraction grating is 13617 lines.
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Chapter 36: Q89P (page 1114)
A diffraction grating 3.00 cm wide produces the second order at 33.0° with light of wavelength 600 nm. What is the total number of lines on the grating?
The number of diffraction grating is 13617 lines.
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A diffraction grating having is illuminated with a light signal containing only two wavelengths and . The signal in incident perpendicularly on the grating. (a) What is the angular separation between the second order maxima of these two wavelengths? (b) What is the smallest angle at which two of the resulting maxima are superimposed? (c) What is the highest order for which maxima of both wavelengths are present in the diffraction pattern?
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A diffraction grating has resolving power . (a) Show that the corresponding frequency range f that can just be resolved is given by . (b) From Fig. 36-22, show that the times required for light to travel along the ray at the bottom of the figure and the ray at the top differ by . (c) Show that , this relation being independent of the various grating parameters. Assume .
A grating has 350 rulings/mm and is illuminated at normal incidence by white light. A spectrum is formed on a screen 30.0 cm from the grating. If a hole 10.0 mm square is cut in the screen, its inner edge being 50.0 mm from the central maximum and parallel to it, what are the (a) shortest and (b) longest wavelengths of the light that passes through the hole?
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