Problem Set 4
From 6.161 and 6.637 Collaboration Page
Advice
- For the diffraction problems that need ploting, be absolutely sure that you can see plot/curve details. In other words, if your plot is a single bright spot amidst a field of black... you need to fix your plot. All plots that need ploting in this problem set give nice continuous curves.
- If you need help with Matlab or Mathematica, let me know. Send me your code, and I should be able to help. -- Dave
Problem 4.6
There was some confusion on this problem. Hopefully this helps:
The gratting is not infinite. It is a finite size amplitude transmission gratting.
Pitch, for this problem, is defined as number of slits/unit length.
Incident Light: | | | V V V Amplitude Grating: - - - - - - - - - - - Diffracted Light: / | \ v V v Gratings of different pitch: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- (N=6) --- --- --- --- --- (N=4) ---- ---- ---- ---- (N=3) etc...