Resolving Power of Optical Instruments

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Resolving Power of Optical Instruments: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Angular Resolving Power, Resolving Power of Optical Instruments, Types of Resolution, Resolving Limit of Optical Instruments, Resolving Limit of Microscope, and Resolving Power of Microscope.

Important Questions on Resolving Power of Optical Instruments

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Resolution power of electron microscope is

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If the red light is replaced by blue light illuminating the object in a microscope, the resolving power of the microscope

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An astronaut is looking down on earth's surface from a space shuttle at an altitude of 400 km. Assuming that the astronaut's pupil diameter is 5 mm and the wavelength of visible light is 500 nm, the astronaut will be able to resolve linear objects of the size of about

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Out of the following, resolving power of reflecting telescope depends on: 
 

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An astronaut is looking down on earths' surface from a space shuttle at an altitude of 400 km. Assuming that the astronaut's pupil diameter is 5 mm and the wavelength of visible light is 500 nm, the astronaut will be able to resolve linear objects of the size of about:

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Light of wavelength 600 nm is incident on an aperture of size 2 mm. The distance upto which light can travel such that its spread is less than the size of the aperture is

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The diameter of the pupil of human eye is about 2 mm. Human eye is most sensitive to the wavelength of 555 nm. The limit of resolution of human eye is

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An astronomical refracting telescope will have large angular magnification and high angular resolution, when it has an objective lens of

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The head lights of a jeep are 1.2 m apart. If the pupil of the eye of an observer has a diameter of 2mm and light of wavelength 5896 Å is used, what should be the maximum distance of the jeep from the observer if the two head lights are just separated?

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Resolution power is the ability to 

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Ray optics is valid, when characteristic dimensions are