You want to coat the inner surfaces of your windows (which have refractive index

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You want to coat the inner surfaces of your windows (which have refractive index of 1.51) with a film in order to enhance the reflection of light back into the room so that you can use bulbs of lower wattage than usual. You find that MgF2, with n = 1.38, is not too expensive, so you decide to use it. Since incandescent home lightbulbs emit reddish light with a peak wavelength of approximately 658nm , you decide that this wavelength is the one to enhance in the light reflected back into the room.

If this layer seems too thin to be able to put on accurately, what other thicknesses would also work? Give only the three thinnest ones.

Enter your answer as three numbers separated with commas.

Explanation / Answer

There will be partial reflections from the top and bottom surfaces of the film with the selected wavelength recombining constructively .. for this to occur the net path difference between the two reflections needs to be a whole number (n) of wavelengths.

As both reflections are against materials of greater ref.index, both sets of reflected waves have the same

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