Question: Tom and Jack are performing an experiment with two diffraction gratings Extra Credit and a detection screen that has specific size where the light can

Tom and Jack are performing an experiment with two diffraction gratings
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and a detection screen that has specific size where the light can be detected.
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If the light is bent too much, it will not hit their detector. Diffraction grating Nol has twice the lines/cm that diffraction grating N2 does. When used with a certain wavelength of light, both gratings give first-order maxima on the detection screen. Which of the following statements must be true for what Tom and Jack observe regarding the second-order maxima for these two gratings when using the same wavelength of light and same detection screen?
Both gratings must also give second-order maxima.
Grating Nol must give a second-order maximum.
Grating N2 must give a second-order maximum.
It is possible that neither grating gives a second-order maximum.
It is not possible to answer this question with the information given.

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