(n = 1.33). When visible light (400nm – 700 nm) shines normally on the film an observed from above, the bright reflected light looks kind of "purplish" with red light of wavelength 650 nm mixed some blue giving it that appearance and "greenish" light of wavelength 520 nm is completely destroyed. Determine the thickness of the acetone film. (you only need to worry about the red and green wavelengths, not the blue)

Complete Question

A thin film in air is made by putting a thin layer of acetone (n = 1.25) on a layer of water

(n = 1.33). When visible light (400 nm – 700 nm) shines normally on the film an observed from above, the bright reflected light looks kind of “purplish” with red light of wavelength 650 nm mixed some blue giving it that appearance and “greenish” light of wavelength 520 nm is completely destroyed. Determine the thickness of the acetone film. (you only need to worry about the red and green wavelengths, not the blue)

The thickness of acetone is  

Explanation:

A diagram showing this process is shown on the first uploaded image

From the question we are told that

     The refractive index of acetone is

     The refractive index of water is  

      The wavelength of the reflected light is  

      The wavelength of the destroyed light is  

Looking at the given data we can see that the

This means that the light which the acetone-water layer would reflect will have a phase shift of

  Again this make us to understand that the light reflected at the acetone layer will also have a phase shift of

Since they would be having the same phase shift the two light would interfere

  For interference the condition for minima is mathematically represented as

Where d is the thickness of acetone

Substituting values

absorption lines are where light has been absorbed by the atom thus you see a dip in the spectrum whereas.

emission spectra have spikes in the spectra due to atoms releasing photons at those wavelengths.

explanation:

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