You are recreating Young's double-slit experiment in lab with red laser light ( λ=700 nm) as a source. You perform the experiment once with a slit separation of 4.5 mm and obtain an interference pattern on a screen a distance 3.0 m away. You then change the slit separation to 9.0 mm and perform the experiment again. In order to maintain the same interference pattern spacing as the first experiment, What should the new screen-to-slit distance be?

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You are recreating Young's double-slit experiment in lab with red laser light ( λ=700 nm) as a source. You perform the experiment once with a slit separation of 4.5 mm and obtain an interference pattern on a screen a distance 3.0 m away. You then change the slit separation to 9.0 mm and perform the experiment again. In order to maintain the same interference pattern spacing as the first experiment, What should the new screen-to-slit distance be? 

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