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: 71

Answer

$660nm$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required longest wavelength as follows: $sin\theta=\frac{m\lambda}{d}$ $\implies sin\theta=mN\lambda$ because $d=\frac{1}{N}$ This can be rearranged as: $\lambda=\frac{sin\theta}{mN}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\lambda=\frac{sin90^{\circ}}{(2)(76\times 10^{-4}m^{-1})}$ $\lambda=660\times 10^{-9}m=660nm$
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