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(II) A tungsten–halogen bulb emits a continuous spectrum of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light in the wavelength range 360 nm to 2000 nm. Assume that the light from a tungsten–halogen bulb is incident on a diffraction grating with slit spacing d and that the first-order brightness maximum for the wavelength of 1200 nm occurs at angle θ. What other wavelengths within the spectrum of incident light will produce a brightness maximum at this same angle θ? [Optical fillers are used to deal with this bothersome effect when a continuous spectrum of light is measured by a spectrometer.]
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