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ISBN: 9781118230718

Author: David Halliday

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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An astronaut in a space shuttle claims she can just barely resolve two point sources on Earth’s surface, 160 km below. Calculate their (a) angular and (b) linear separation, assuming ideal conditions. Take λ = 540 nm and the pupil diameter of the astronaut’s eye to be 5.0 mm.

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