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Chapter 37, Problem 23P
You are working as a demonstration assistant for a physics professor. For an upcoming lecture on diffraction gratings, he wishes to perform a demonstration where he shines a laser pointer at normal incidence onto the recorded surface of a DVD that is laying flat on the demonstration table. (a) He asks you to determine how many additional maxima beyond the normal reflection (which will be blocked by his hand holding the laser pointer) will be projected onto the ceiling or walls of the room if he uses a laser pointer with a wavelength of 632.8 nm. (b) He also asks you if he can show more maxima by using a laser pointer of another visible color. The tracks of pits on a DVD are separated by 0.800 μm.
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You are working as a demonstration assistant for a physics professor. For an upcoming lecture on diffraction gratings, he wishes to perform a demonstration where he shines a laser pointer at normal incidence onto the recorded surface of a DVD that is laying flat on the demonstration table. (a) He asks you to determine how many additional maxima beyondthe normal reflection (which will be blocked by his hand holding the laser pointer) will be projected onto the ceiling or walls of the room if he uses a laser pointer with a wavelength of 632.8 nm. (b) He also asks you if he can show more maxima by using a laser pointer of another visible color. Thetracks of pits on a DVD are separated by 0.800 μm.
Astronomers observe the chromosphere of the Sun with a filter that passes the red hydrogen spectral line of wavelength 656.3 nm, called the Hα line. The filter consists of a transparent dielectric of thickness d held between two partially aluminized glass plates. The filter is held at a constant temperature. (a) Find the minimum value of d that produces maximumtransmission of perpendicular Hα light if the dielectric has an index of refraction of 1.378. (b) What If? If the temperature of the filter increases above the normal value, increasing its thickness, what happens to the transmitted wavelength? (c) The dielectric will also pass what near-visible wavelength? One of the glass plates is colored red to absorb this light.
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