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Please show your work 1.) The dark fringe for m = 0 in a Young\'s double-slit ex

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1.) The dark fringe for m = 0 in a Young's double-slit experiment is located at an angle of = 7°. What is the angle that locates the dark fringe for m = 3?

3.) You are standing in air and are looking at a flat piece of glass

(n = 1.52)

on which there is a layer of transparent plastic

(n = 1.61).

Light whose wavelength is 649 nm in vacuum is incident nearly perpendicularly on the coated glass and reflects into your eyes. The layer of plastic looks dark. Find the two smallest possible nonzero values for the thickness of the layer.

smaller value     __________nm larger value     ____________nm

Explanation / Answer

1]

we have the equation d*sin = [m-1/2] * lambda

The dark fringe for m = 0 in a Young's double-slit experiment is located at an angle of = 7°

d* sin [70]= 1/2* lambda

d/ lambda= 0.5/0.123= 4.10

The angle that locates the dark fringe for m = 3

d*sin = [3-1/2] * lambda

d*sin = 2.5* lambda

sin =2.5* lambda/ d

sin =2.5 / 4.10= 0.6097

= sin-1[0.6097]= 37.570

2]

Given:-

X7- X1= 0.023m

D=1.1 m

d=1.40*10-4 m

lambda=?

we have the equation ; Xn= [n-1/2]* lambda *D/d

X7= 6.5* lambda *1.1/1.40*10-4 = 5.11*104* lambda

X1= 0.5* lambda *1.1/1.40*10-4 = 0.393*104* lambda

X7-X1=  5.11*104* lambda- 0.393*104* lambda

X7-X1= 4.72*104* lambda

lambda =X7-X1/ 4.72*104 = 0.023/4.72*104 =4.87*10-7m

The wavelength of the light being used is 4.87*10-7m

3]

For the minimum nonzero thickness, m = 1.
destructive interference (because the plastic looks dark) --> 2nt=m*wavelength

t= m*wavelength/2n

t= 1*(649*10-9)/(2*1.61) = 201.6 *10-9m= 201.6 nm------------------smallest value

t=  2*201.6 nm= 403.2 nm----------------------------------second smallest possible value