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Transcribed Image Text:A student performs a double-slit interference experiment. The student
records the fact that a third-order dark spot is located at an angle of
20.11° for a given light source. The wavelength of light is then
decreased by
40.0 nm, and the student records the fact that the second-order dark
spot is now located at an angle of 11.17°. What is the slit separation?
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