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Chapter 27, Problem 10OQ
A Fraunhofer diffraction pattern is produced on a screen located 1.00 m from a single slit. If a light source of wavelength 5.00 × 10−7 m is used and the distance from the center of the central bright fringe to the first dark fringe is 5.00 × 10−3 m, what is the slit width?
- (a) 0.010 0 mm
- (b) 0.100 mm
- (c) 0.200 mm
- (d) 1.00 mm
- (e) 0.005 00 mm
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