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a diffraction pattern is produced on a viewing screen by illuminating a long narrow slit of...

a diffraction pattern is produced on a viewing screen by illuminating a long narrow slit of light of wavelength lamda. If lamda is increased and no other changes are made:

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"The intensity at the center of thhe pattern increases and the pattern contracts toward the bright center"

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Answer #1

This gives a total intensity expression:

And we know that ? =2? /? *bsin?

So with increasing lamda intensity increases and pattern contracts towards bright centre as L=? D/d

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Answer #2

Since intensity is given by this eqn

I=IO*SIN2{? /2}* SIN2{N? /2}/{? /2}2* SIN2{? /2}*

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