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Chapter 33: Q. 21 (page 955)
Light from a helium-neon laser () is incident on a single slit. What is the largest slit width for which there are no minima in the diffraction pattern?
The largest width forin the diffraction pattern
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You've found an unlabeled diffraction grating. Before you can use it, you need to know how many lines per it has. To find out, you illuminate the grating with light of several different wavelengths and then measure the distance between the two first-order bright fringes on a viewing screen behind the grating. Your data are as follows:
Use the best-fit line of an appropriate graph to determine the number of lines per .
FIGURE shows light of wavelength incident at angle on a reflection grating of spacing . We want to find the angles um at which constructive interference occurs.
a. The figure shows paths and along which two waves travel and interfere. Find an expression for the path-length difference .3
b. Using your result from part a, find an equation (analogous to Equation localid="1650299740348" for the angles localid="1650299747450" at which diffraction occurs when the light is incident at angle localid="1650299754268" . Notice that m can be a negative integer in your expression, indicating that path localid="1650299766020" is shorter than path localid="1650299773517" .
c. Show that the zeroth-order diffraction is simply a 鈥渞eflection.鈥� That is, localid="1650299781268"
d. Light of wavelength 500 nm is incident at localid="1650299787850" on a reflection grating having localid="1650299794954" reflection lines/mm. Find all angles localid="1650299802944" at which light is diffracted. Negative values of localid="1650299812949"
are interpreted as an angle left of the vertical.
e. Draw a picture showing a single localid="1650299823499" light ray incident at localid="1650299833529" and showing all the diffracted waves at the correct angles.
Two wide slits spaced apart are illuminated by blue laser light with a wavelength of . The interference pattern is observed on a screen behind the slits. How many bright fringes are seen in the central maximum that spans the distance between the first missing order on one side and the first missing order on the other side?
Narrow, bright fringes are observed on a screen behind a diffraction grating. The entire experiment is then immersed in water. Do the fringes on the screen get closer together, get farther apart, remain the same, or disappear? Explain.
A student performing a double-slit experiment is using a green laser with a wavelength of . She is confused when the maximum does not appear. She had predicted that this bright fringe would be from the central maximum on a screen behind the slits.
a. Explain what prevented the fifth maximum from being observed.
b. What is the width of her slits?
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