Part A If you can read the bottom row of your doctor's eye chart, your eye has a resolving power of one arcminute, equal to 1.67x10-2 degrees If this resolving power is diffraction-limited, to what effective diameter of your eye's optical system does this correspond? Use Rayleigh's criterion and assume that the wavelength of the light is 570 nm

Part A If you can read the bottom row of your doctor's eye chart, your eye has a resolving power of one arcminute, equal to 1.67x10-2 degrees If this resolving power is diffraction-limited, to what effective diameter of your eye's optical system does this correspond? Use Rayleigh's criterion and assume that the wavelength of the light is 570 nm

University Physics Volume 3

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Chapter4: Diffraction

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