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A grating has 500 lines/mm — JEE Physics

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A grating has 500 lines/mm. Find the angle for the second-order maximum for light of wavelength 600 nm.

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VAVidaara Admin ✓ Vidaara Team ✓ Accepted · 1mo ago ▲ 11

$$d = \frac{1}{500 \times 10^3} = 2 \times 10^{-6} m$$

$$d\sin\theta = m\lambda \Rightarrow \sin\theta = \frac{2 \times 600\times10^{-9}}{2\times10^{-6}} = \frac{1.2\times10^{-6}}{2\times10^{-6}} = 0.6$$

$$\theta = \sin^{-1}(0.6) \approx 36.87°$$

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KK
Clean and to the point. Bookmarking this for revision.
Kavya Krishnan · 1mo ago
MP
Does this approach generalise to the JEE Advanced version of this question?
Meera Pillai · 1mo ago
MT
What changes if the medium/conditions were different?
Manish Tiwari · 1mo ago
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Can someone explain why we ignore the other root here?
AntoineMartin95 · 1mo ago
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