In: Physics
Light from a laboratory sodium lamp has two strong yellow components at 589.6 nm and 590.0 nm. This light falls normally on a transmission grating that contains 8000 lines per centimeter.
a. Calculate the slits spacing in the diffraction grating.
b. Calculate the angular separation between the first-order maxima of these two wavelengths.
c. How far apart in the first-order spectrum will these two lines be on a screen 1.2 m from the grating?