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MHT CET · Physics · Wave Optics

Light of wavelength \(5000 Å\) is incident normally on a slit. The first minimum of the diffraction pattern is observed to lie at distance of \(5 \mathrm{~mm}\) from the central maximum on a screen placed at a distance of \(2 \mathrm{~m}\) from the slit. The width of the slit.is

  1. A \(2 \mathrm{~cm}\)
  2. B \(0.2 \mathrm{~cm}\)
  3. C \(0.02 \mathrm{~cm}\)
  4. D \(0.01 \mathrm{~cm}\)
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(C) \(0.02 \mathrm{~cm}\)

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The slit width is given as:
\(\mathrm{W}=\frac{\lambda \mathrm{D}}{\mathrm{d}}\)
\(\therefore \quad \mathrm{d}=\frac{2 \times 5000 \times 10^{-10}}{5 \times 10^{-3}}=0.02 \mathrm{~cm}\)
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