You send coherent 550 nm light through a diffraction grating that has slits of equal widths and constant separation between adjacent slits. You expect to see the fourth-order interference maximum at an angle of 66.6 with respect to the normal to the grating. However, that order is missing because 66.6 is also the angle for the third diffraction minimum (as measured from the central diffraction maximum) for each slit. (a) Find the center-to-center distance between adjacent slits. (b) Find the number of slits per mm. (c) Find the width of each slit.

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Diffraction of light

In physics, the term diffraction is defined as the bending of light around the corners of the obstacle. As a light ray passes by an aperture, it bends around the edges or through slits, it spreads out through a narrow opening. The diffracted light will produce fringes of bright and dark or colored bands which are labeled as a diffraction pattern.