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Grating Design. Your boss asks you to design a diffraction grating that will disperse the first-order visible spectrum through an angular range of 27.0°. (See Example 36.4 in Section 36.5.) (a) What must be the number of slits per centimeter for this grating? (b) At what angles will the first-order visible spectrum begin and end?
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