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What two main changes in diffraction pattern of a single slit will you observe, when the monochromatic source of light replaced by a source of white light

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(i) In each diffraction order, the diffracted image of the slit gets dispersed into component colours of white light. As fringe width a λ, ∴ red fringe with higher wavelength is wider than violet fringe with smaller wavelength.
(ii) In higher order spectra, the dispersion is more and it cause overlapping of different colours
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