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College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille

Edition 10ISBN: 978-1285737041
book College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille cover

College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille

Edition 10ISBN: 978-1285737041
Exercise 49
Suppose a 5.00-m-diameter telescope were constructed on the Moon, where the absence of atmospheric distortion would permit excellent viewing. If observations were made using 500-nm light, what minimum separation between two objects could just be resolved on Mars at closest approach (when Mars is 8.0 × 10 7 km from the Moon)
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Use the concept of Rayleigh's criterion ...

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