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A bolt of lightning heats the surrounding air to ~30,000 K — five times hotter than the Sun's surface.
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A bolt of lightning heats the surrounding air to ~30,000 K — five times hotter than the Sun's surface.
The intensity of the maximum in a Young’s double-slit experiment is I₀. Distance between two slits is d = 5λ, where λ is the wavelength of light used in the experiment. What will be the intensity in front of one of the slits on the screen placed at a distance D = 10d?
3/4 I₀
I₀/2
I₀
I₀/4
To solve this problem, we need to understand the intensity distribution in a Young's double-slit experiment.In a Young's double-slit experiment, the intensity at any point on the screen is given by:where is the maximum intensity, is the distance between the slits, is the wavelength,and is the angle of the point on the screen with respect to the central maximum.Given:We need to find the intensity in front of one of the slits. In this case, because the point is directly in front of the slit.Substituting into the intensity formula:Since we have:We know that so:Therefore, the intensity in front of one of the slits is This corresponds to Option 3.
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