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27.7 Exercise 14

Avg difficulty 2.5

Calculate the minimum thickness of an oil slick on water that appears blue when illuminated by white light perpendicular to its surface. Take the blue wavelength to be 470 nm and the index of refraction of oil to be 1.40.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 27.7 Thin Film Interference, exercise 14

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