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Tutorial Sheet 6

This tutorial sheet focuses on various problems related to diffraction in physics, including calculations of intensity percentages, wavelength determination, and the effects of slits and apertures on diffraction patterns. It covers single-slit and double-slit diffraction, the impact of light wavelength on spectral overlap, and the dispersive power of a transmission grating. The document includes specific numerical problems to be solved, emphasizing practical applications of diffraction principles.

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Tutorial Sheet 6

This tutorial sheet focuses on various problems related to diffraction in physics, including calculations of intensity percentages, wavelength determination, and the effects of slits and apertures on diffraction patterns. It covers single-slit and double-slit diffraction, the impact of light wavelength on spectral overlap, and the dispersive power of a transmission grating. The document includes specific numerical problems to be solved, emphasizing practical applications of diffraction principles.

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Department of Physics and Materials Science

PHYSICS (UPH 013), July-Dec 2024


TUTORIAL SHEET # 6: Diffraction

[Note: Consider normal incidence of light on all slits / plane transmission grating]

1. For a single slit diffraction fringe find the percentage intensities of I and II order maxima
with respect to that of the central maximum.

2. The eleventh order minima of a single slit diffraction pattern are found at a distance of 5
cm on either side of the central maximum. Find the wavelength of the monochromatic
radiation used, while the distance between the slit and screen is 1m and slit width is 0.1mm.

3. A thin needle is placed at the centre of an aperture having width thrice that of the needle.
If a laser beam incidents normally on this arrangement, which order spectrum will be absent
from the diffraction pattern?

4. A double-slit, each slit having width 0.05 cm and a separation of 0.5 cm between them,
forms diffraction pattern on a screen placed 1.5 m away from the slits. If the diffraction
fringe width is 0.15mm find the wavelength of the monochromatic light used.

5. 15,000 numbers of long chain Iodine molecules (opaque) are arranged parallel on a
transparent thin film of length 1 inch. Let, the film is illuminated by a light of wavelength
5600 Å. How many bright spots will be observed on the screen? Label their order.

6. Prove that for white light (wavelength range 4000 Å to 7000 Å) the second and third
order spectrum will partially overlap for any grating.

7. A plane transmission grating has 300 rulings per mm. Determine the dispersive power of
violet (wavelength 4000 Å) and red (wavelength 6328 Å) light for second order diffraction
pattern.

8. A plane transmission grating can just resolve two spectral lines of wavelength 5499.5 Å
and 5500.5 Å in the first order diffraction pattern. Determine the minimum order the same
grating can resolve, while using another pair of wavelength 6500 Å and 6500.5 Å.

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