Chapter 5: Q3E (page 1211)
Question: Light of wavelength 585 nm falls on a slit 0.0666 mm wide. (a) On a very large and distant screen, how many totally dark fringes (indicating complete cancellation) will there be, including both sides of the central bright spot? Solve this problem without calculating all the angles! (Hint: What is the largest that sin u can be? What does this tell you is the largest that m can be?) (b) At what angle will the dark fringe that is most distant from the central bright fringe occur?
Short Answer
- The total number of dark fringes or minima on the screen would be 226.
- The farthest dark fringe will make an angle of 83 degrees from horizontal