EBK PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEER
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Chapter 36, Problem 30AP
In the What If? section of Example 36.2, it was claimed that overlapping fringes in a two-slit interference pattern for two different wavelengths obey the following relationship even for large values of the angle θ:
(a) Prove this assertion. (b) Using the data in Example 36.2, find the nonzero value of y on the screen at which the fringes from the two wavelengths first coincide.
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