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Plane microwaves are incident on a long slit of width 6 cm. if the first diffraction minimum is formed at `30^(@)` then the wavelength of microwaves is

A

6 cm

B

4 mm

C

6 mm

D

3 cm

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The correct Answer is:
D

`lamda=asintheta=6xx10^(-2)xxsin30^(@)=3xx10^(-2)m=3cm`
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