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Computing a Fresnel pattern

The lab PC's have a program FRESNEL which will create a file of data containing the intensity as a function of position in a Fresnel diffraction pattern of a slit. Locate this program on the computer and run it; respond to the prompts for distance and wavelength with values from your experiment. Use xmgr to view the file FRESNEL creates. Compare this calculation with your experiment. Include a screen dump of this graph in your lab report.



John Kielkopf 2001-01-23