Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Physics

Chapter

Wave Optics

Question:

If light with wavelength 0.50 mm falls on a slit of width 10 mm and at an angle θ° = 30° to its normal. Then angular position of first minima located on right sides of the central Fraunhoffer's diffraction will be at

Options:

33.4°

26.8°

39.8°

None of these

Correct Answer:

33.4°

Explanation:

For first diffraction minima at angle θ

$d\left(\sin \theta-\sin \theta_0\right)= \pm \lambda$

For right of C.M., $\sin \theta_1=\sin \theta_0+\frac{\lambda}{d}$

$=0.5+\frac{0.5}{10}=0.55$  i.e., $\theta_1=33.37^\circ$