Chapter 36: Q89P (page 1114)
A diffraction grating 3.00 cm wide produces the second order at 33.0掳 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.
/*! This file is auto-generated */ .wp-block-button__link{color:#fff;background-color:#32373c;border-radius:9999px;box-shadow:none;text-decoration:none;padding:calc(.667em + 2px) calc(1.333em + 2px);font-size:1.125em}.wp-block-file__button{background:#32373c;color:#fff;text-decoration:none}
Learning Materials
Features
Discover
Chapter 36: Q89P (page 1114)
A diffraction grating 3.00 cm wide produces the second order at 33.0掳 with light of wavelength 600 nm. What is the total number of lines on the grating?
The number of diffraction grating is 13617 lines.
All the tools & learning materials you need for study success - in one app.
Get started for free
(a) What is the angular separation of two stars if their images are barely resolved by the Thaw refracting telescope at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh? The lens diameter is 76 cm and its focal length is 14 m. Assume . (b) Find the distance between these barely resolved stars if each of them is 10 light-years distant from Earth. (c) For the image of a single star in this telescope, find the diameter of the first dark ring in the diffraction pattern, as measured on a photographic plate placed at the focal plane of the telescope lens. Assume that the structure of the image is associated entirely with diffraction at the lens aperture and not with lens 鈥渆rrors.鈥
For a certain diffraction grating, the ratio of wavelength to ruling spacing is. Without written calculation or the use of a calculator, determine which of the orders beyond the zeroth order appear in the diffraction pattern.
Two emission lines have wavelengths and , respectively, where . Show that their angular separation in a grating spectrometer is given approximately by
where is the slit separation and is the order at which the lines are observed? Note that the angular separation is greater in the higher orders than the lower orders.
Light of frequency f illuminating a long narrow slit produces a diffraction pattern. (a) If we switch to light of frequency 1.3f, does the pattern expand away from the center or contract toward the center? (b) Does the pattern expand or contract if, instead, we submerge the equipment in clear corn syrup?
Suppose that two points are separated by 2.0 cm. If they are viewed by an eye with a pupil opening of 5.0 mm, what distance from the viewer puts them at the Rayleigh limit of resolution? Assume a light wavelength of 500 nm.
What do you think about this solution?
We value your feedback to improve our textbook solutions.