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A Young's Double-Slit Experiment Is Performed and Then Repeated After

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A Young's double-slit experiment is performed and then repeated after moving the screen to three times the previous distance from the slits. What happens to the angular separation (as measured from the slits) of the fourth-order maxima?


A) There is no change.
B) It becomes one-third the original value.
C) It becomes four times the original value.
D) It triples.
E) It increases by a factor of 2.25.

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