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4.7 Exercise 20

Avg difficulty 2.5

A diffraction grating produces a second maximum that is 89.7 cm from the central maximum on a screen 2.0 m away. If the grating has 6000 lines per centimeter, what is the wavelength of the light that produces the diffraction pattern?

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