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In his double-slit experiment with electrons, jonsson used electrons with kinetic energy 50 kev.
A) Find the electron's de Broglie wavelength
B) The two slits were separated by 2.0 um. On a screen 0.350m from the slits, what was the distance between bright diffraction fringes?
The momentum of the electron in terms of kinetic energy is,
Here, m is the mass of the electron and K is the kinetic energy of the electron.
The wavelength of the electron accroding to De Broglie's concept is,
Here, h is the Planck's constant.
Then,
Therefore, the wavelength of the electron is
or approximately 5.5 pm.
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(b) The distance between the bright fringes is given as follows:
Here, m is order of the spectrum, l is the distance between the slits and the screen, and d is the distance
between the slits.
Then,
Therefore, the distnace between the bright diffraction fringes
is
.