A grating has 500 lines/mm — JEE Physics
A grating has 500 lines/mm. Find the angle for the second-order maximum for light of wavelength 600 nm.
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$$d = \frac{1}{500 \times 10^3} = 2 \times 10^{-6} m$$
$$d\sin\theta = m\lambda \Rightarrow \sin\theta = \frac{2 \times 600\times10^{-9}}{2\times10^{-6}} = \frac{1.2\times10^{-6}}{2\times10^{-6}} = 0.6$$
$$\theta = \sin^{-1}(0.6) \approx 36.87°$$
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Discussion (4)
KK
Clean and to the point. Bookmarking this for revision.
MP
Does this approach generalise to the JEE Advanced version of this question?
MT
What changes if the medium/conditions were different?
A
Can someone explain why we ignore the other root here?