As an admirer of Thomas Young, you perform a double-slit experiment in his honor. You set your slits 1.07 mm apart and position your screen 3.53 m from the slits. Although Young had to struggle to acheive a monochromatic light beam of sufficient intensity, you simply turn on a laser with a wavelength of 635 nm. How far on the screen are the first bright fringe and the second dark fringe from the central bright fringe in millimeters?

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As an admirer of Thomas Young, you perform a double-slit experiment in his honor. You set your slits 1.07 mm apart and position your screen 3.53 m from the slits. Although Young had to struggle to acheive a monochromatic light beam of sufficient intensity, you simply turn on a laser with a wavelength of 635 nm. 

How far on the screen are the first bright fringe and the second dark fringe from the central bright fringe in millimeters?

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