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A beam of monochromatic parallel rays is incident normally on a narrow slit. A diffraction fringe pattern is formed on a screen, placed normally to the incident rays. Find the phase difference between two rays coming from two ends of the slit at the first minimum formed in the diffraction fringe.

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