Tutorials in Introductory Physics
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Chapter 11.4, Problem 3bT
The photograph at right shows the diffraction pattern produced by laser light incident on a narrow slit.
Use the model that we have developed to predict how the pattern would change it the slit were made even,narrower. Explain your reasoning and sketch your prediction in the space provided at right.
Ask a tutorial instructor for the photograph showing diffraction patterns produced by light Incident on a narrow slit and on an even narrower slit so that you may check your predictions.
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