You are looking into the headlights of a distant vehicle on an autoroute in France. The driver has shown his resistance to the Europeanization of Europe by resolutely continuing to use yellow headlights (wavelength 550 nm). (a) What is the theoretical limit of angular resolution of your eyes for these headlights when your iris has a diameter of 6.00 mm? (Express your answer in milli-radians (mrad).) (b) If the headlights of the car are separated by 1.80 m, with this resolution at what distance would you be just be able to tell that the vehicle had, in fact, two headlights? (Express your answer in km.)
Compton effect
The incoming photons' energy must be in the range of an X-ray frequency to generate the Compton effect. The electron does not lose enough energy that reduces the wavelength of scattered photons towards the visible spectrum. As a result, with visible lights, the Compton effect is missing.
Recoil Velocity
The amount of backward thrust or force experienced by a person when he/she shoots a gun in the forward direction is called recoil velocity. This phenomenon always follows the law of conservation of linear momentum.
You are looking into the headlights of a distant vehicle on an autoroute in France. The driver has shown his resistance to the Europeanization of Europe by resolutely continuing to use yellow headlights (wavelength 550 nm).
(a) What is the theoretical limit of angular resolution of your eyes for these headlights when your iris has a diameter of 6.00 mm? (Express your answer in milli-radians (mrad).)
(b) If the headlights of the car are separated by 1.80 m, with this resolution at what distance would you be just be able to tell that the vehicle had, in fact, two headlights? (Express your answer in km.)
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