The fourth-order bright fringe is observed at point on the screen when a double-slit…

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The fourth-order bright fringe is observed at point PP on the screen when a double-slit experiment is performed in air using light of wavelength 600 nm600\,\text{nm}. The entire apparatus (slits and screen fixed) is now immersed in a transparent liquid of refractive index 1.51.5 without changing any distances. (a) Calculate the new wavelength of the light in the liquid. (b) State whether point PP will now correspond to a bright fringe, a dark fringe, or neither. Give a brief justification.

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