Determine the size of the holes that are burned into the disc by examining the diffraction pattern
that appears when a laser is shone on the recording side.
Part 1: Experiment
This is a picture of our setup, the laser strikes the cd and bounces back slightly at an angle
towards the laser. We then have a whiteboard placed right next to the point of emission and we
measure the distance from the center and use that as our maxima distance.
Calculations are quite trivial as it's mostly simple algebra. The value we obtained is
1.5645 ± .0035 micrometer. The standard value is 1.6 micrometers, which means our value has
an error of 2.2%.
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