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Physics laser slit question?
Two narrow slits are 0.12 mm apart. Light of wavelength 503 nm illuminates the slits, causing an interference pattern on a screen 1.0 m away. Light from each slit travels to the m = 2 maximum on the right side of the central maximum. How much farther did the light from the left slit travel than the light from the right slit?
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
optical path difference=path from ray2 (right slit )- path from ray 1 (left slit)
D= distance btw the screen and the slits
if you have a bright fringe, the optical path difference = order of the fringe * lambda
since you are on the right side, the optical path difference here equals = - 2 * lambda
which means the light from the left traveled 2*lambda = 1006 nm farther than the light from the right
- 8 years ago
The distance in their paths is given by dsintheta where d is the distance between slits and theta is the angle between the path of the ray and the screen. The angle isn't needed however because the equation is equal to m lambda, in this case m is 2 and lambda is 503e-9. Therefore light from the left slit travels 1006 nm more than that of the right.
Source(s): Physics professor for seven years