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JEE Mains · Physics · STD 12 - Wave optics
  • JEE Mains 2015
  • Medium
  • Numerical

Assuming human pupil to have a radius of \(0.25\ cm\) and a comfortable viewing distance of \(25\ cm\), the minimum separation between two objects that human eye can resolve at \(500\ nm\) wavelength is.....\(\mu m\)

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(A) \(30\) 

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\(\sin \,\theta \, = \,\frac{{0.25}}{{25}}\, = \,\frac{1}{{100}}\)

Resolving power \( = \,\frac{{1.22\,\lambda }}{{2\,\mu \,\sin \,\theta }}\, = \,30\,\mu m\)

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