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* Red light from a helium-neon gas laser has a wavelength of 630 nm and passes through two slits. (a) Draw a ray diagram to explain why you see a pattern of bright and dark bands on the screen. Show the path length difference. (b) Determine the angular deflection of the light to the first three bright bands when incident on narrow slits separated by 0.40 mm. (c) Determine the distance between the centers of the 0th and 2nd order bright bands when projected on a screen located 5.0 m from the slits. (d) List all of the assumptions that you made in your calculations.
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