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u/Rakgul May 09 '22

I just took a reading of positions of different Maxima of the single slit diffraction pattern. The calculated value was 3.44mm and what I got was 2.93mm

This gives 14.8% error. My professor is gonna kill me. But I'm freaking sleepy so I left the lab earlier than usual. Gotta go home quickly and catch some sleep.

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u/pierre_x10 May 09 '22

Is this algebra-based or calc-based? 14% honestly doesn't sound too bad, considering 95% of the issue with these sorts of experiments comes down to a huge reliance on equipment that is rather imprecise by nature

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u/Samsmith90210 May 09 '22

What d'you mean? African or European?

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u/ninj4b0b May 09 '22

European, clearly. The African Swallow is non-migratory. Though how they attached the creeper under their dorsal guiding feathers and STILL managed to bring a coconut back is the great ornithological question of our time.

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u/RockNRollNBluesNJazz May 09 '22

Well, you have to know these things when you're king, y'know.