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The aperture diameter of a telescope is 5 m . The separation between the moon and the earth is 4×105 km . With light of wavelength of 5893 Å , the minimum separation between objects on the surface of moon, so that they are just resolved, is close to:

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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_________microscope will have maximum resolving power.

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Two poles are separated by a distance of 3.14 m The resolving power of human eye is 1minute of an arc. The maximum distance from which he can identify the two poles distinctly is
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A microscope will have maximum resolving power if it is used to illuminate the specimen with,

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Assertion: Oil immersion objective microscope is used to achieve high resolving power.
Reason: Resolving power of the microscope increases with the increase in refractive index.

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On decreasing the wavelength of incident light from 8000 A to 4000 A, the intensity of the scattered light in Rayleigh scattering will become how many times the initial scattered intensity?
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If the wavelength of light used is 6000 Å. The angular resolution of the telescope of an objective lens having diameter 10 cm is _____ rad.
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When wavefront strikes a reflecting surface,
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Considering the fact that the speed of light in glass is not independent of the colour of light, which of the statement is true?