JEE Advanced2025Paper 1PHY-III
Q.
A single slit diffraction experiment is performed to determine the slit width using the equation, , where is the slit width, the shortest distance between the slit and the screen, the distance between the diffraction maximum and the central maximum, and is the wavelength. and are measured with scales of least count of 1 cm and 1 mm, respectively. The values of and are known precisely to be 600 nm and 3, respectively. The absolute error (in m) in the value of estimated using the diffraction maximum that occurs for with mm and m is ___
Correct answer: 75.6
Solution
From , the central value is:
m
Standard fractional-error propagation gives:
m.
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