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 1004: 20

Answer

$4.37cm$

Work Step by Step

We can determine the width of the central bright fringe as follows: $2y_1=2L tan (sin^{-1}\frac{\lambda}{2d})$ $2y_1=2L tan(sin(\frac{1}{5}sin\theta_3))$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $2y_1=2Ltan[sin^{-1}(\frac{1}{5}tan^{-1}(\frac{0.11m}{1.0m}))]$ $\implies 2y_1=0.0437m=4.37cm$
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