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You want to photograph a circular diffraction pattern whose central maximum has a diameter of d=0.90 cmd=0.90~\text{cm}. You have a helium-neon laser (lλ=633 nm\lambda=633~\text{nm}) and a dp=0.13 mmd_p=0.13~\text{mm} diameter pinhole. How far behind the pinhole should you place the viewing screen?

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To find how far we need to put the pinhole we need to use this equation:

y=Dmλdy=D\frac{m\lambda}{d}

This is the equation of the width of the pinhole or we can say the pinhole diameter yy for the central maximum where m=2.44m=2.44.

From the equation for yy we need to express DD and calculate it, where first we will move dd to the right side of the equation:

yd=Dmλyd=Dm\lambda

From here dd is equal to:

D=ydmλ\begin{align} D=\frac{yd}{m\lambda} \end{align}

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