Optics Question 872

Question: A physics professor wants to find the diameter of a human hair by placing it between two flat glass plates, illuminating the plates with light of vacuum wavelength λ=552nm and counting the number of bright fringes produced along the plates. The Professor find 125 bright fringes between the edge of the plates and the hair. What is the diameter of the hair?

Options:

A) 525×109m

B) 344×103m

C) 3.44×105m

D) None of the above

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Answer:

Correct Answer: C

Solution:

[c] The reflections from the boundaries will cause a net 180 phase shift.

The condition for bright fringes is

2t=(m+1/2)λfilm

Now, m=124 since there is a bright fringe for m = 0 and

λfilm=λn

t=(m+12)λfilm2=(m+12)λ2n

=(124+12)(552×109m)2×(1.00)=3.44×105m



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