Question

is width of secondary maximum and secondary minimum equal???

Answer 1

sorry... have got no idea wats tat...

Answer 2

in diffraction of light

Answer 3

yes, I think they are both infinately small. You could resolve the maximum to any arbitrary number of decimal places.

Answer 4

What do you call the width of a minimum? I have never heard that concept yet.

Answer 5

the witdth of the minimum is basically 0

Answer 6

You can define the width of a 'peak': from zero-intensity to next zero-intensity.
This is the only thing used in diffraction to my knowledge.

Answer 7

in interference yes of course,,
but in diffraction not...

in diffraction central max is twice the width of secondary max and secondary minima...

Answer 8

@damrinder
Then, how do you define the width of a minimum?

Answer 9

Maybe you mean width, or rather "distance between two consecutive minima", which would make sense.

Answer 10

in b/w two maxima ,lies a minima.so if ypu find the distance b/w two maxima ,u will get the width of minima.similarly for the width of maxima,find distance b/w two consecutive minima...

Answer 11

@Vincent-Lyon.Fr
in diffraction students hv difficulty to understand the division of a single slit into various part to understand the minima and maxima...

Answer 12

huygen's xplain easily the inteference but when it comes to diffraction where nmbr of wavelets are just infinite there is the main problem..

Answer 13

well,do they have same widths?