Exam 35: Optical Instruments

A myopic (nearsighted) dancer wears eyeglasses that allow him to have clear distant vision. The power of the lenses of his eyeglasses is -3.00 diopters. Without eyeglasses, what is the far point of the dancer?

Which one of the following is a characteristic of a compound microscope?

An astronomical telescope has an objective of diameter 20 cm with a focal length of 180 cm. The telescope is used with an eyepiece of focal length 30 mm. What is the angular magnification of this telescope?

The focal lengths of the objective and the eyepiece in a microscope are 0.290 cm and 2.50 cm, respectively. An object is placed 0.300 cm from the objective. The image of this object is viewed with the eyepiece adjusted for minimum eyestrain (image at the far point of the eye) for a person with normal vision. What is the distance between the objective and the eyepiece?

A machinist with normal vision has a near point at 25 cm. The machinist wears eyeglasses in order to do close work. The power of the lenses is +1.75 diopters. With these eyeglasses, what is the near point of the machinist?

A person having a near point of 25 cm and a far point at infinity uses a converging lens of focal length 5.0 cm as a magnifying glass. What is the magnification if the person's eye is relaxed (with the image at his far point)?

If the diameter of a radar dish is doubled, what happens to its resolving power assuming that all other factors remain unchanged?

Light consisting of a mixture of red and blue light enters a 40°, 70°, 70° prism along a line parallel to the side opposite the 40° vertex. The index of refraction of the prism material for blue light is 1.530, and for red light it is 1.525. What is the angle between the two emerging beams of light?

If the headlights on a car are separated by 1.3 m, how far down the road can they be resolved if the angular resolution of the eye is 5.0 × 10^-4 rad and the person has excellent vision?

What is the focal length of the corrective contact lens needed by a nearsighted person whose far point is 60 cm?

A magnifying glass uses a converging lens with a refractive power of 20 diopters. What is the magnification if the image is to be viewed by a relaxed eye (image at the far point) having a near point of 25 cm and a far point at infinity?

A certain astronomical telescope has a diameter of 5.60 m. Considering only the limitation due to diffraction, what is the minimum angle of resolution for this telescope at a wavelength of 620 nm?

Light of wavelength 633 nm from a He-Ne laser passes through a circular aperture and is observed on a screen 4.0 m behind the aperture. The diameter of the central bright area is 5.4 cm. What is the diameter of the aperture?

A camera used for aerial surveillance has a lens with a 30-cm maximum aperture and a 42-cm focal length. Assume light of 550-nm wavelength is used and that the resolution of the camera is limited solely by diffraction. What is the angular resolution of the camera at maximum aperture?

What power contact lens must be used to correct the vision of a nearsighted person whose far point is 40 cm?

A beam of light of two different wavelengths enters a pane of glass 3.00 mm thick at an angle of incidence of 56°. The indices of refraction for the two different colors are 1.514 and 1.528. Because of dispersion, the colored beams, although parallel, are separated by a small distance. How far apart are they?

Treat each of your eyes as a circular aperture of diameter 3.5 mm. Light of wavelength 500 nm is used to view two point sources that are 894 m distant from you. How far apart must these two point sources be if they are to be just resolved by your eye? Assume that the resolution is diffraction limited and use Rayleigh's criterion.

The eyepiece of a compound microscope has a focal length of 2.50 cm and the objective has a focal length of 1.60 cm. The two lenses are separated by 15.0 cm. The microscope is used by a person with normal eyes (near point at 25 cm). What is the angular magnification of the microscope?

A 35-mm camera equipped with a 95 mm focal length lens is used to photograph a tree that is 8.0 m tall. A 32 mm high image of the tree on the film is needed. The required distance, between the tree and the camera lens, to take the photograph is closest to

A simple refracting telescope provides large magnification by employing