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ERIC Number: EJ892014
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Sep
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-921X
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Inquiry with Laser Printer Diffraction Gratings
Van Hook, Stephen J.
Physics Teacher, v45 n6 p340-343 Sep 2007
The pages of "The Physics Teacher" have featured several clever designs for homemade diffraction gratings using a variety of materials--cloth, lithographic film, wire, compact discs, parts of aerosol spray cans, and pseudoliquids and pseudosolids. A different and inexpensive method I use to make low-resolution diffraction gratings takes advantage of specialty transparency film designed for use with laser printers. A standard laser printer can print black lines (separated by a white line) at 60 black lines/cm (about 150 lines/in), which is a small enough spacing to produce a crude diffraction grating [see Fig. 1(a)] that is sufficient for the physics inquiry activities described in this paper.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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