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Chapter 35: Q27P (page 1075)
A thin flake of mica (n = 1.58) is used to cover one slit of a double-slit interference arrangement. The central point on the viewing screen is now occupied by what had been the seventh bright side fringe (m = 7). If , what is the thickness of the mica?
The thickness of mica is .
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In a double-slit arrangement the slits are separated by a distance equal to 100 times the wavelength of the light passing through the slits. (a)What is the angular separation in radians between the central maximum and an adjacent maximum? (b) What is the distance between these maxima on a screen 50 cm from the slits?
Transmission through thin layers. In Fig. 35-43, light is incident perpendicularly on a thin layer of material 2 that lies between (thicker) materials 1 and 3. (The rays are tilted only for clarity.) Part of the light ends up in material 3 as ray (the light does not reflect inside material 2) and (the light reflects twice inside material 2). The waves of and interfere, and here we consider the type of interference to be either maximum (max) or minimum (min). For this situation, each problem in Table 35-3 refers to the indexes of refraction , , and , the type of interference, the thin-layer thickness in nanometers, and the wavelength in nanometers of the light as measured in air. Where is missing, give the wavelength that is in the visible range. Where is missing, give the second least thickness or the third least thickness as indicated.
Transmission through thin layers. In Fig. 35-43, light is incident perpendicularly on a thin layer of material 2 that lies between (thicker) materials 1 and 3. (The rays are tilted only for clarity.) Part of the light ends up in material 3 as ray (the light does not reflect inside material 2) and (the light reflects twice inside material 2). The waves of andinterfere, and here we consider the type of interference to be either maximum (max) or minimum (min). For this situation, each problem in Table 35-3 refers to the indexes of refraction and the type of interference, the thin-layer thickness in nanometers, and the wavelength in nanometers of the light as measured in air. Where is missing, give the wavelength that is in the visible range. Where is missing, give the second least thickness or the third least thickness as indicated.
Add the quantities , and using the phasor method
In Fig. 35-23, three pulses of light— , , and —of the same wavelength are sent through layers of plastic having the given indexes of refraction and along the paths indicated. Rank the pulses according to their travel time through the plastic layers, greatest first.
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