Physics
Physics
1st Edition
Walker
ISBN: 9780133256925
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Page 660: Practice Problems

Exercise 35
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The smaller the angle to the 1st dark fringe the greater the resolution. If we suppose that the pupil is a circular opening of diameter $D$ we can write for this angle

$$
sintheta = 1.22frac{lambda}{d}.
$$
We see that the greater the wavelength the bigger the sine on the angle (which here means that the angle is also bigger since it falls in range of $0-90^circ$). This means that the resolution is greater with blue light since it has smaller wavelength and thus deviates at smaller angle.

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Exercise 36
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Using the equation for the condition for 1st dark fringe we get

$$
sintheta=1.22frac{lambda}{D}.
$$
This yields for diameter of the aperture

$$
D=frac{1.22lambda}{sintheta} = frac{1.22times550times10^{-9}text{ m}}{sin0.000018^circ} =3.73text{ cm}.
$$

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