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Example 13: A lens of focal length 100 cm forms Fraunhofer diffraction pattern of a single slit of width 0.04 cm in its focal plane. The incident light contains two wavelengths λ1\lambda_{1} and λ2\lambda_{2}. It is found that the fourth minimum corresponding to λ1\lambda_{1} and the fifth minimum corresponding to λ2\lambda_{2} occur at the same point 0.5 cm from the central maximum. Compute λ1\lambda_{1} and λ2\lambda_{2}. [M.T.U., B.Tech I Sem. 2012]

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