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A double-slit diffraction pattern is formed using mercury green light at 546.1 nm. Each sl...

A double-slit diffraction pattern is formed using mercury green light at 546.1 nm. Each slit has a width of 0.100 mm. The pattern reveals that the fourth-order interference maxima are missing from the pattern.

a. What is the slit separation?


b. What is the irradiance of the first three orders of interference fringes, relative to the zeroth-order maximum?

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