College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 26, Problem 10MCP
Laser light of wavelength A passes through a thin slit of thickness a and produces its first dark fringes at angles of ±45° with the original direction of the beam. The slit is then reduced in size to a circle of diameter a. When the same laser light is passed through the circle, the first dark fringe occurs at
- A. ±59.6°.
- B. ±54.9°.
- C. ±36.9°.
- D. ±35.4°.
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