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Expt 13 Plane Transmission Grating

This experiment uses a plane transmission grating to determine the wavelengths of red and blue light. Students will measure the distance of bright fringes formed when red and blue light pass through the grating. From these measurements and the known grating slit separation, they can use the grating equation to calculate the wavelengths of red and blue light. The summary provides an overview of the key apparatus, procedures, and goals of the experiment to determine wavelengths of visible light using diffraction gratings.

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Expt 13 Plane Transmission Grating

This experiment uses a plane transmission grating to determine the wavelengths of red and blue light. Students will measure the distance of bright fringes formed when red and blue light pass through the grating. From these measurements and the known grating slit separation, they can use the grating equation to calculate the wavelengths of red and blue light. The summary provides an overview of the key apparatus, procedures, and goals of the experiment to determine wavelengths of visible light using diffraction gratings.

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  • Introduction
  • Apparatus
  • Results
  • Procedures
  • Conclusion
  • Discussion

2022 – 24 NSS Physics SBA: Expt 13 Worksheet 1

ABERDEEN BAPTIST LUI MING CHOI COLLEGE


NSS PHYSICS SBA Practical Worksheet

Experiment 13 Plane Transmission Grating

Practical skills (10) Name ( )


Reporting (10) Class
Total Date

A. Objective
This experiment is to determine the directions in which the first-order bright fringes are
formed by a plane transmission grating of a known slit separation and in turn estimate the
wavelength of a coloured light.

B. Apparatus
Clamp 1 Needle object 1
Filters (red and blue) 2 Plane transmission grating 1
Metre rule 1 Ray box 1
Half metre rule 1 Retort stand 1
Low voltage power supply 1

C. Theory
A plane transmission grating is an optical instrument consisting of a series of very narrow
slits (about 100 to 500 slits in 1 mm). When parallel monochromatic light rays are incident
on the slits, they diffract and interfere with each other.

Suppose the incident light has a single wavelength of l. Constructive interference occurs
where path differences of the diffracted rays are equal to 0, l, 2l and so on. Destructive
interference occurs where path differences are equal to ½l, 1½l, 2½l and so on. If a
screen is placed behind the grating, an interference pattern consisting of alternate bright
and dark fringes is caught as a result.

If the light rays are incident on the grating along the normal, the directions in which the
bright fringes are formed can be determined by
d sinq = ml
where d is the slit separation and m is a non-negative integer.
2022 – 24 NSS Physics SBA: Expt 13 Worksheet 2

D. Procedures
1. Set up the apparatus as shown in the figure below. Place the ray box 2 m away from
the 0 cm mark of the 0.5 metre rule and hold the grating against the edge of the
metre rule positioned at a right angle to the 0.5 metre rule.

2. Attach a red filter to the grating. Ask your partner to move a needle object along the
0.5 metre rule until stopped at the first-order maximum observed through the
grating. Measure its distance x from the central maximum.

3. Repeat step 2 with a blue filter.

E. Results
1. Slit separation of the diffraction grating

Density of the lines = lines per mm

= lines per m

1 1
Slit separation, d = =
N ( )

= m
2022 – 24 NSS Physics SBA: Expt 13 Worksheet 3

2. Tabulate the results:


Precision of l = d sinq/ Average
Colour Trial x/ m q = tan-1x/ °
instrument m value of l/ m
1

Red 2

Blue 2

F. Conclusion
The wavelength of red light is about

and that of blue light is about .

G. Discussion
1. Show how you can determine the angle q from the distance x.

2. Which coloured light, red or blue, has a smaller wavelength?

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