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Chapter 35 Problem 35.57

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Two thin parallel slits are made in an opaque sheet of film. When a monochromatic beam of light is shone through them at normal incidence, the first bright fringes in the transmitted light occur in air at \(\pm 18.0^{\circ}\) with the original direction of the light beam on a distant screen when the apparatus is in air. When the apparatus is immersed in a liquid, the same bright fringes now occur at \(\pm 12.6^{\circ}\). Find the index of refraction of the liquid.

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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

Two thin parallel slits are made in an opaque sheet of

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