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Question
Discuss the experiment to determine the wavelength of different colours using diffraction grating.
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Solution
- When white light is used, the diffraction pattern consists of a white central maximum and on both sides, continuous coloured diffraction patterns are formed.
- The central maximum is white as all the colours meet here constructively with no path difference. As θ increases, the path difference, (a+b)sin θ, passes through the condition for maxima of diffraction of different orders for all colours from violet to red.
- It produces a spectrum of the diffraction pattern from violet to red on either side of the central maximum
- By measuring the angle at which these colours appear for various orders of diffraction, the wavelength of different colours could be calculated using the formula,
`lambda = (sin theta)/"Nm"`
Here, N is the number of rulings per metre in the grating and m is the order of the diffraction image.
Diffraction with white light
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