CET Karnataka Engineering CET - Karnataka Engineering Solved Paper-2008

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    In a Fraunhofer diffraction experiment at a single slit using a light of wavelength 400 nm, the first minimum is formed at an angle of \[{{30}^{o}}\]. The direction 6 of the first secondary maximum is given by

    A)  \[{{\sin }^{-1}}\left( \frac{2}{3} \right)\]                               

    B)  \[{{\sin }^{-1}}\left( \frac{3}{4} \right)\]

    C)  \[{{\sin }^{-1}}\left( \frac{1}{4} \right)\]                               

    D)  \[ta{{n}^{-1}}\left( \frac{2}{3} \right)\]

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    For first diffraction minimum                 \[\theta =\frac{{{K}_{1}}{{\theta }_{1}}{{l}_{2}}+{{K}_{2}}{{\theta }_{2}}{{l}_{1}}}{{{K}_{1}}{{l}_{2}}+{{K}_{2}}{{l}_{1}}}\]                 \[\Rightarrow \]                               \[a=\frac{\lambda }{\sin \theta }\] For first secondary maximum or \[\sin \,\,\theta '=\frac{3\lambda }{2}\times \frac{1}{a}=\frac{3\lambda }{2}\times \frac{\sin \theta }{\lambda }=\frac{3}{2}\times \sin {{30}^{o}}=\frac{3}{4}\] or            \[\theta '={{\sin }^{-1}}\left( \frac{3}{4} \right)\]


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