Critical Thinking Items
17.2 Applications of Diffraction, Interference, and Coherence
For what type of electromagnetic radiation would a grating with spacing greater than 800 nm be useful as a spectroscopic tool?
- It can be used to analyze spectra only in the infrared portion of the spectrum.
- It can be used to analyze spectra in the entire visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- It can only be used to analyze spectra in the short‐wavelength visible.
- It can only be used to analyze spectra in the short‐wavelength visible and ultraviolet.