Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Diffraction homework

1.  Consider the following:

A 632 nm (red) laser hits a diffraction grating with 100 slits per mm.  A screen/wall is 1-m away.

a.  What is the spacing (in m) between each of the slits (or openings)?

b.  What will be the angle of diffraction for a first-order (n = 1) image?

c.  How far from the central image (n = 0) will the first-order image be from the central image?  Hint:  use trig (SOH CAH TOA).

d.  Is there a second order image (n = 2)?  If so, what is the angle of diffraction?

e.  Is there a third order image?  What is the maximum number of orders of images seen?  Hint:  consider that the maximum diffraction angle is 90 degrees.

2.  Find out something about X-ray diffraction and what it is useful in determining.




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