Isaac Newton, having convinced himself (erroneously as it turned out) that chromatic aberration is an inherent property of refracting telescopes, invented the reflecting telescope, shown schematically in the figure. He presented his second model of this telescope, with a magnifying power of 38, to the Royal Society (of London), which still has it. In the figure incident light falls, closely parallel to the telescope axis, on the objective mirror M. After reflection from small mirror M' (the figure is not to scale), the rays form a real, inverted image in the focal plane (the plane perpendicular to the line of sight, at focal point F). This image is then viewed through an eyepiece. (a) Is the angular magnification me for the device given by Equation 34-15: me -fob fey, where fob is the focal length of the objectiíve mirror and fey is that of the eyepiece? (b) The 200 in. mirror in the reflecting telescope at Mt. Palomar in California has a focal length of 16.8 m. Estimate the size of the image formed by this mirror when the object is a meter stick 2.7 km away. Assume parallel incident rays. (c) The mirror of a different reflecting astronomical telescope has an effective radius of curvature of 10 m ("effective" because such mirrors are ground to a parabolic rather than a spherical shape, to eliminate spherical aberration defects). To give an angular magnification of 240, what must be the focal length of the eyepiece? м em Буеріесe lem plem oblem Objective mirror oblem roblem (a) (b) Number Units s by. (c) Number Units

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Isaac Newton, having convinced himself (erroneously as it turned out) that chromatic aberration is an inherent property of refracting telescopes, invented the reflecting
telescope, shown schematically in the figure. He presented his second model of this telescope, with a magnifying power of 38, to the Royal Society (of London), which
still has it. In the figure incident light falls, closely parallel to the telescope axis, on the objective mirror M. After reflection from small mirror M' (the figure is not to
scale), the rays form a real, inverted image in the focal plane (the plane perpendicular to the line of sight, at focal point F). This image is then viewed through an
eyepiece.
(a) Is the angular magnification me for the device given by Equation 34-15: me
-fob fey, where fob is the focal length of the objectiíve mirror and fey is that of the
eyepiece?
(b) The 200 in. mirror in the reflecting telescope at Mt. Palomar in California has a focal length of 16.8 m. Estimate the size of the image formed by this mirror when
the object is a meter stick 2.7 km away. Assume parallel incident rays.
(c) The mirror of a different reflecting astronomical telescope has an effective radius of curvature of 10 m ("effective" because such mirrors are ground to a parabolic
rather than a spherical shape, to eliminate spherical aberration defects). To give an angular magnification of 240, what must be the focal length of the eyepiece?
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Transcribed Image Text:Isaac Newton, having convinced himself (erroneously as it turned out) that chromatic aberration is an inherent property of refracting telescopes, invented the reflecting telescope, shown schematically in the figure. He presented his second model of this telescope, with a magnifying power of 38, to the Royal Society (of London), which still has it. In the figure incident light falls, closely parallel to the telescope axis, on the objective mirror M. After reflection from small mirror M' (the figure is not to scale), the rays form a real, inverted image in the focal plane (the plane perpendicular to the line of sight, at focal point F). This image is then viewed through an eyepiece. (a) Is the angular magnification me for the device given by Equation 34-15: me -fob fey, where fob is the focal length of the objectiíve mirror and fey is that of the eyepiece? (b) The 200 in. mirror in the reflecting telescope at Mt. Palomar in California has a focal length of 16.8 m. Estimate the size of the image formed by this mirror when the object is a meter stick 2.7 km away. Assume parallel incident rays. (c) The mirror of a different reflecting astronomical telescope has an effective radius of curvature of 10 m ("effective" because such mirrors are ground to a parabolic rather than a spherical shape, to eliminate spherical aberration defects). To give an angular magnification of 240, what must be the focal length of the eyepiece? м em Буеріесe lem plem oblem Objective mirror oblem roblem (a) (b) Number Units s by. (c) Number Units
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