Chapter 35: Q. 8 (page 1016)
To focus parallel light rays to the smallest possible spot, should you use a lens with a small f-number or a large f-number? Explain.
smaller f-numbered lens
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Once dark adapted, the pupil of your eye is approximately 7 mm in diameter. The headlights of an oncoming car are 120 cm apart. If the lens of your eye is diffraction limited, at what distance are the two headlights marginally resolved? Assume a wavelength of 600 nm and that the index of refraction inside the eye is 1.33. (Your eye is not really good enough to resolve headlights at this distance, due both to aberrations in the lens and to the size of the receptors in your retina, but it comes reasonably close.)
The rays leaving the two-component optical system of FIGUREPproduce two distinct images of the-tall object. what are the position (relative to the lens), orientation, and height of each image?
A reflecting telescope is built with a -diameter mirror having anm focal length. It is used with aneyepiece.
What are:
(a) the magnification?
(b) the of the telescope?
High-power lasers are used to cut and weld materials by focusing the laser beam to a very small spot. This is like using a magnifying lens to focus the sun’s light to a small spot that can burn things. As an engineer, you have designed a laser cutting device in which the material to be cut is placed 5.0 cm behind the lens. You have selected a high-power laser with a wavelength of 1.06 mm. Your calculations indicate that the laser must be focused to a 5.0@mm@diameter spot in order to have sufficient power to make the cut. What is the minimum diameter of the lens you must install?
The Hubble Space Telescope has a mirror diameter of 2.4 m. Suppose the telescope is used to photograph stars near the center of our galaxy, 30,000 light years away, using red light with a wavelength of 650 nm.
a. What’s the distance (in km) between two stars that are marginally resolved? The resolution of a reflecting telescope is calculated exactly the same as for a refracting telescope.
b. For comparison, what is this distance as a multiple of the distance of Jupiter from the sun?
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