When the width of a single-slit aperture is reduced to one-half of its original value…

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Problem

When the width of a single-slit aperture is reduced to one-half of its original value while the wavelength of the light and the slit-to-screen distance remain unchanged, what happens to the distance between the central maximum and the first diffraction minimum on the screen? (a) It decreases to one-half its original value. (b) It quadruples. (c) It doubles. (d) It remains unchanged.

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