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mirror

Sp (2)

Telescope whose Circular

resolving power has scale
to be find
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Design of experimental set up:-

light from the mercury lamp passes through a collimator C and then diffracted by a
diffraction grating G ( to be mounted on the prism table just front of C) which forms first
and second order spectra over both the sides of the incident beam. in fact both the C and
the prism table are the parts of sp(1) whose telescope have been removed and replaced by
an appx 1 m arm( called optical bench), which can be rotated by loosening the turn table
screw sp(1) . Double slit D and the mirror M are to be mounted on the stands which can be
slides over the optical bench . The optical can be adjusted in the direction of the first order
spectrum formed by the grating so that the double slit be illuminated by it.
the light emanated by the double slit is first reflected by the mirror M almost in the
backward direction and then observed by the telescope T of sp(2) this arrangement not
only makes possible to achieve a large distance of the telescope T from D but also facilitates
the landing of the diffraction grating as well as the double slit while observing the image s
of the D through the telescope.
If the double slit is adjusted at a distance equal to the focal length of this lens it
would virtually be at infinity from the telescope . The angular separation theta between the
rays apparently coming from two virtual slits ( image of the double slit) must be equal to
the angle suspended by the real slit at the pole of the lens . This angle can be directly
measure d by the spectrometer.

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 Mercury
lamp
Diffraction
grating

Single
slit Convex lens (
large focal
length)

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Moving microscope.( to see
minute object by horizontal
and vertical movement)

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 Vertical
scale Object is hold
here and by well
focusing we can
got the reading.

Horizontal
scale

How to measure from microscope

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Procedure in brief:

1) finding the least count of the circular scale.

2) focusing from the grating to the mirror of first order left spectrum of
particular to the yellow light on the telescope we see the circular airy disc due to
circular aperture of the telescope.

3) now with the help of the convex lens and the double slit find the angle
between the slit i.e. their position reading.

4) then take the single slit and just merge the two slit by decreasing the width
of the single slit. and got the circular reading.

5) by the help of the microscope determine the width of the single slit.

6) then got the find reading by several calculations.

NOTE:- the width of the double slit should be equal .

do the same procedure for violet light just move the turn table.

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