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Orange light of wavelength 6000×1010m  illuminates a single slit of width 0.6×104m . The maximum possible number of diffraction minima produced on both sides of the central maximum is __________

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answer is 198.

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For obtaining secondary minima at a point path difference should be integral multiple of wavelength
 dsinθ=nλsinθ=nλd
For n to be maximum  sinθ=1
 n=dλ=6×1056×107=100
Total number of minima on one side=99 
Total number of minima=198. 
 

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