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Past exam of the physics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 Section D D12 c Solution by
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Farther out, successive maxima and zeros occur at different angles for each wavelength. Many colour bands overlap, so the pattern becomes faint with increasingly washed-out colour contrast, rather than retaining a single sharp monochromatic fringe system. The overall single-slit intensity falls with an approximately inverse-square angular envelope.
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