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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 59
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Suppose that you wish to construct a telescope that can resolve features 6.5 km across on the Moon, 384,000 km away. You have a 2.0-m-focal-length objective lens whose diameter is 11.0 cm. What focal-length eyepiece is needed if your eye can resolve objects 0.10 mm apart at a distance of 25 cm? What is the resolution limit set by the size of the objective lens (that is, by diffraction)? Use λ\lambda = 560 nm.

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fe=8.5 cm, θ=6.2×106 rad,  min distance =2.4 kmf_e = 8.5 \textrm{ cm, } \theta = 6.2 \times 10^{-6} \textrm{ rad, } \textrm{ min distance } = 2.4 \textrm{ km}
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