A Person with Her Eye Relaxed Looks Through a Diffraction

question 53

Multiple Choice

A person with her eye relaxed looks through a diffraction grating at a distant monochromatic point source of light.The slits of the grating are vertical.She sees:

• A)one point of light
• B)a hazy horizontal strip of light of the same color as the source
• C)a hazy strip of light varying from violet to red
• D)a sequence of horizontal points of light
• E)a sequence of closely spaced vertical lines

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