Answer:
The distance between the two slits is 1.2mm.
Explanation:
The physicist Thomas Young establishes, through its double slit experiment, a relationship between the interference (constructive or destructive) of a wave, the separation between the slits, the distance between the two slits to the screen and the wavelength.
(1)
Where is the distance between two adjacent maxima, L is the distance of the screen from the slits,
is the wavelength and d is the separation between the slits.
If light pass through two slits a diffraction pattern in a screen will be gotten, at which each bright region corresponds to a crest, a dark region to a trough, as consequence of constructive interference and destructive interference in different points of its propagation to the screen.
Therefore, d can be isolated from equation 1.
(2)
Notice that it is necessary to express L and in units of millimeters.
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Hence, the distance between the two slits is 1.2mm.