Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2018/s3/2/e/solution

For a single slit of width , the far-field amplitude is proportional to . The first zeros satisfy . At small angles the angular width between those zeros is , or on a screen a distance away.
The result assumes the wavelength, propagation distance and far-field conditions stay fixed. If the slit becomes comparable to the wavelength, the exact sine relation replaces the small-angle scaling.

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