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 1007: 70

Answer

Two

Work Step by Step

We know that $m_{max}=\frac{1}{N\lambda_{min}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $m_{max}=\frac{1}{(89\times 10^4m^{-1})(400\times 10^{-9}m)}$ $m_{max}=2.8$ Since the value of $m$ is less than 3, therefore, the highest order visible maximum is 2.
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