Chapter 8 Coursework & solutions

1. In an interference pattern from two slits, the fifth-order bright fringe is 22.1mm from the zeroth-order bright fringe. he double slit is ! meters awa" from the screen, and the two slits are #.$ mm apart. Calculate the wa%elength of the light and the spacing of the fifth and si&th bright fringes. '(n.1$)*.
m L, d

+olution, '1* -right fringe condition, x m =

x m d 22.1 #.$ = = )1).$ nm mL ) !### L )1).$ 1# ! !### '2* x = = = ...2mm

d # .$

2.

In double slit interference, the two slits spaced #.2 mm apart, and screen at a distance of 1 meter, the third bright fringe is found to be displaced $.)mm from the central fringe. /ind the wa%elength of the light used. x d $.) #.2 = m = = )##.#nm +olution, mL 0 1### 0. 1 soap bubble )!#nm thick and of refracti%e inde& 1.00 is illustrated at near normal incidence b" white light. Calculate the wa%elengths of the light for which destructi%e and constructi%e interferences occur. 1nswer, '1* destructi%e interference, =
2nd 2 1.00 )!# = 'nm* m m

'2* constructi%e interference, =

2nd . 1.00 )!# = 'nm* 1 m 2 2m 1

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'wa%elength of %isible light is from 08#nm to $!#nm* he wa%elengths of the %isible spectrum are appro&imatel" .##nm to $##nm. '1* /ind the angular breadth of the first-order %isible spectrum produced b" a plane grating ha%e !,### lines per centimeter, when light is incident normall" on the grating. '2* show that the %iolet of the third spectrum o%erlaps the red of the second-order spectrum. 'hint, see the e&ample on "our (nglish te&t book on pages 2#0*.
1 cm = 1.!$ 1# ! m !###

+olution, '1* grating constant, d = grating e2uation,

d sin m = m ,

he angular de%iation of the %iolet is,

sin 1 = .## 1# 3 = #.2.#, 1.!$ 1# !

1 = 10.3

he angular de%iation of the red is

sin 1 =

$## 1# 3 = #..2#, 1.!$ 1# !

1 = 2..8

'2*

he angular de%iation of the third-order %iolet is

0 '.## 1# 3 * sin 0 = = #.$13, 1.!$ 1# !

0 = .).3$

he angular de%iation of the second-order red is

sin 2 = 2 '$## 1# 3 * = #.808, 1.!$ 1# !

2 = )!.3!

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+o the second order de%iation angle of the red is larger than the third-order de%iation one of the %iolet. he third order o%erlaps the second. In a single slit diffraction, the spacing of the slit is #.#2)mm and the wa%elength of light used in the e&periment is .)#nm. /ind the included angle to the first and fourth order dark fringe. +olution, /or a single slit diffraction, the condition for a dark fringe is m sin m = 'm 4 1, 2, 0, 5*
a

.)# = #.#18 1 = 1.#0 #.#2) 1# ! . .)# sin . = = #.#$2 . = ..10 #.#2) 1# ! he included angle between the first and fourth dark fringes is sin 1 =

. 1 = ..10 1.#0 = 0.1#