The radius of the Moon is 1.737 Mm and the distance between Earth and the Moon is 384.5 Mm. The intensity of the moonlight incident on her eye is 0.0220 W/m2. What is the intensity incident on her retina if the diameter of her pupil is 6.74 mm and the diameter of her eye is 2.03 cm?

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The radius of the Moon is 1.737 Mm and the distance between Earth and the Moon is 384.5 Mm.

The intensity of the moonlight incident on her eye is 0.0220 W/m2. What is the intensity incident on her retina if the
diameter of her pupil is 6.74 mm and the diameter of her eye is 2.03 cm?

 

  ______W/m2

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