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When radio waves try to pass through a city, they encounter thin vertical slits: the separations between the buildings. This causes the radio waves to diffract. In this problem, you will see how different wavelengths diffract as they pass through a city and relate this to reception for radios and cell phones. You will use the angle from the center of the central intensity maximum to the first intensity minimum as a measure of the width of the central maximum $($where nearly all of the diffracted energy is found$).$