A student performing Young's experiment with a single-colour source finds the distance between the first and the seventh dark spots to be 6.0cm. The screen is located 3.0m from the two slits. The slit separation is 2.2 x 102μm. Calculate the wavelength of the light.

A student performing Young's experiment with a single-colour source finds the distance between the first and the seventh dark spots to be 6.0cm. The screen is located 3.0m from the two slits. The slit separation is 2.2 x 102μm. Calculate the wavelength of the light.

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In physics, the term diffraction is defined as the bending of light around the corners of the obstacle. As a light ray passes by an aperture, it bends around the edges or through slits, it spreads out through a narrow opening. The diffracted light will produce fringes of bright and dark or colored bands which are labeled as a diffraction pattern.

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A student performing Young's experiment with a single-colour source finds the
distance between the first and the seventh dark spots to be 6.0cm. The screen is
located 3.0m from the two slits. The slit separation is 2.2 x 102um. Calculate the
wavelength of the light.

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