A simple lecture demonstration is described, in which light from a gas-discharge laser is diffracted at grazing incidence by the rulings of a steel scale. The wavelength of light is obtained by measuring the pattern spacings and the distance from the ruler to the screen.
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© 1965 American Association of Physics Teachers.
1965
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