A student doing Young’s experiment finds that the distance between the central bright fringe and the 11th nodal line is 4.2 cm. If the screen is located 3.3 m from the two slits, whose separation is 3.3 x10-4 m, what is the wavelength of the light measured in nm?

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A student doing Young’s experiment finds that the distance between the central bright fringe and the 11th nodal line is 4.2 cm. If the screen is located 3.3 m from the two slits, whose separation is 3.3 x10-4 m, what is the wavelength of the light measured in nm?

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