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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition
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Optical Instruments
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25-1: Camera
25-2: Eye and Corrective Lenses
25-3: Magnifying Glass
25-4: Telescopes
25-5: Microscopes
25-6: Lens Aberrations
25-7 to 25-9: Resolution Limits
25-11: X-Ray Diffraction
25-12: Imaging by Tomography

Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 20
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The closely packed cones in the fovea of the eye have a diameter of about 2  μm2 \; \mu \textrm{m}. For the eye to discern two images on the fovea as distinct, assume that the images must be separated by at least one cone that is not excited. If these images are of two point-like objects at the eye’s 25-cm near point, how far apart are these barely resolvable objects? Assume the eye’s diameter (cornea-to-fovea distance) is 2.0 cm.

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50  μm-50 \; \mu m
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