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The half angular width of the central bright maximum in Frauhoffer diffraction pattern, for a slit of width 1.2 × 10-3 mm illuminated by monochromatic light of wavelength 600 nm is : |
$\frac{\pi}{12}$ $\frac{\pi}{6}$ $\frac{\pi}{4}$ $\frac{\pi}{2}$ |
$\frac{\pi}{6}$ |
As we know that in franhaufer diffraction $sin\theta = \frac{\lambda}{a}$ where θ is the half angular width of the central maximum. Given that $\lambda = 6\times 10^{-7}m , a = 1.2\times 10^{-6}m$ $\Rightarrow sin\theta = \frac{ 6\times 10^{-7}}{1.2 \times 10^{-6}} = 0.5 = 30^o$ $\theta = \frac{\pi}{6}$ |