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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 338 1 a ii Solution by
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At fixed incidence angle, differentiation of the grating equation gives . Near the camera axis, the focal-plane displacement is , so the local grating dispersion isIt has units of distance per unit wavelength. If the camera axis is at and the flat focal-plane coordinate is retained exactly as , thenThe boxed expression is the local value at the optical axis.
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