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ISBN: 9781118230725

Author: David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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Chapter 36, Problem 19P

(a) How far from grains of red sand must you be to position yourself just at the limit of resolving the grains if your pupil diameter is 1.5 mm, the grains are spherical with radius 50 µm, and the light from the grains has wavelength 650 nm? (b) If the grains were blue and the light from them had wavelength 400 nm, would the answer to (a) be larger or smaller?

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