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When light is incident on a diffraction grating, the zero order principal maximum will be

A

spectrum of the colours

B

white

C

one of the component colours

D

absent

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When light is incident on a diffraction grating then zero order principal maximum will have only white colour.
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MHTCET PREVIOUS YEAR PAPERS AND PRACTICE PAPERS-INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT -Exercise 1 (TOPICAL PROBLEMS)
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  10. The angular width of the central maximum of the diffraction patternn i...

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  14. In Fraunhofer diffraction experiment, L is the distance between screen...

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