Name: Vishwa Prasad.

R
Regno: 16BEC1207

Aim: Determination of the track width (periodicity) in a given CD by a Laser

diffraction method and then determine the amount of data stored on a given
CD.
Apparatus Required:
Laser source, written CD-R, Planer screen and Scale.
Observation Table:
n=1
S.no

2L

16.8

8.4

23

=arctan(L/
D)
20.06

18.8

9.4

25

20.60

19

9.5

26

20.07

21

10.5

27

21.25

21.2

10.6

28

20.7

d=n/si
n
1551.0
m
1512.0
m
1550.2
m
1467.8
m
1502.6
m

Mean d=1516.72 m
n=2
S.no

2L

40

20.0

23

=
arctan(L/D)
41

47

23.5

25

43.2

52

26

26

45

56.8

28.4

27

46.4

57

28.5

28

45.5

d=n/si
n
1621.8
m
1554.3
m
1504.7
m
1469.2
m
1491.7
m

Mean d=1528.34 m

RESULT:

The track width of the CD is d = 1522.53 m