A linear aperture whose width is 0.02 cm is placed immediately in front of a lens of focal length 60 cm. The…

A linear aperture whose width is 0.02 cm is placed immediately in front of a lens of focal length 60 cm. The aperture is illuminated normally by a parallel beam of wavelength 5×10-5 cm. The distance of the first dark band of the diffraction pattern from the centre of the screen is
  1. 0.10  cm
  2. 0.25  cm
  3. 0.20  cm
  4. 0.15  cm

Solution

By the principle of single slit diffraction pattern
θ=λa=yf

y=fλa=60×5×10-50.02=0.15 cm

Asked in: NEET 2016 (Phase 2)

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