An unknown spectrum has a red line at 671 nm and a violet line at 437 nm. What angular separation between two spectral lines obtained with a diffraction grating that has 3750 lines/cm? Find it for the first-order maximum?

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An unknown spectrum has a red line at 671 nm and a violet line at 437 nm. What angular separation between two spectral lines obtained with a diffraction grating that has 3750 lines/cm? Find it for the first-order maximum?

5.14  °

11.08 °

4.02 °

6.14 °

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