Microscopes are inherently limited in resolution by the wavelength they use. How much smaller detail can be resolved, with an electron microscope that uses electrons that have been accelerated through a potential difference of 20 million volts, than with a visible-light microscope that uses red light, with lambda = 5.0 x 10^-7 m? (Recall that U = qV , where U = electric potential energy, q = electron charge and V = the potential difference.)

Microscopes are inherently limited in resolution by the wavelength they use. How much smaller detail can be resolved, with an electron microscope that uses electrons that have been accelerated through a potential difference of 20 million volts, than with a visible-light microscope that uses red light, with lambda = 5.0 x 10^-7 m? (Recall that U = qV , where U = electric potential energy, q = electron charge and V = the potential difference.)

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Chapter5: Matter Waves

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