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Transcribed Image Text:Consider a diffraction grating with a grating constant of 500 lines/mm. The grating is illuminated with a monochromatic light source of unknown wavelength. A
screen is placed a distance 1.24 m away and the 1st order maxima is measured to be a distance 38 cm from the central maxima. What is the wavelength of the light
expressed in nm?
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