Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
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Chapter 28 - Physical Optics: Interference and Diffraction - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1005: 23

Answer

$658nm$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required wavelength as follows: $tan\theta=\frac{y}{L}$ $\theta=tan^{-1}(\frac{y}{L})$ $\implies \theta=tan^{-1}(\frac{7.15\times 10^{-3}m}{2.50})=0.1638$ Now $\lambda=\frac{dsin\theta}{n}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\lambda=\frac{(0.230\times 10^{-3}m)sin(0.1638)}{(1)}$ $\lambda=657.75\times 10^{-9}m$ $\lambda=658nm$
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