In a Young's double slit experiment using light of wavelength 600 nm

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Problem

In a Young's double slit experiment using light of wavelength 600 nm, the slit separation is 0.8 mm and the screen is kept 1.6 m from the plane of the slits. Calculate: (1) the fringe width (2) the distance of (a) third minimum and (b) fifth maximum, from the central maximum.

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