What is the angular diameter (in arcseconds) of an object that has a linear diameter of 5 meters and a distance of 3 km?
What is the angular diameter (in arcseconds) of an object that has a linear diameter of...
If the angular diameter of the Horse Nebula is about 300 arcseconds, and the distance to the nebula is found to be 1 630 ly, then the actual diameter (in light years) of the nebula
A comet that is 500,000,000 km from Earth has a measured angular diameter of 0.00125 degrees. The linear diameter of this comet is ___ km. Only enter your numerical answer below - do not include units. Your Answer: Answer
1. What is the minimum telescope aperture needed to resolve an object whose angular diameter is 0.38 arc seconds, observed at 540 nm wavelength? Note: 1arcsec=(1/3600)∘. **express in cm 2. Find the minimum angular separation resolvable with 625 nm laser light passing through a circular aperture of diameter 2.1 cm . 3. The interference pattern from two slits separated by 0.35 mm has bright fringes with angular spacing 0.073 ∘. **express in nm**
The parallax of Reiltas has been measured to be 0.285 arcseconds. What is the distance to Reiltas in parsecs? in light-years? Suppose Reiltas' parallax was re-measured by the new Satellite for Parallax Accuracy Measurements (SPAM) to be 0.275 arcseconds. Is Reiltas closer or farther than previously determined? Explain your reasoning.
What is the maximum angular diameter of Ceres in seconds of arc as seen from Earth? (Hints: Use the small-angle formula; angular size in seconds of arc = 206,265 x physical size/distance; Ceres's orbital radius is 413.9 million km; and its diameter is 965 km. Note that the Earth is about 149.6 million km from the sun.) Can details be seen on the surface of Ceres with a 100 inch simple mirror reflecting telescope?
4. An adult human eye has a diameter of 8 mm. (a) What is the theoretical smallest possible angle (diffraction limit) that can be discerned at 550 nm? [arcsec] (b) Compare this with the average angular diameter of Jupiter as seen from Earth [arcsec]. Assume Jupiter is at a distance of 5 AU and it has a diameter of 138,350 km.
(a)
What is the minimum angular spread (in rad) of a 694 nm
wavelength ruby laser beam that is originally 1.17 mm in
diameter?
________ rad
(b)
If this laser is aimed at a mountain cliff 15.5 km away, how big
will the illuminated spot be? (Give the diameter of the spot in
meters.)
_________ m
(c)
How big a spot would be illuminated on the Moon, neglecting
atmospheric effects? (This might be done to hit a corner reflector
to...
An automobile traveling at 90.3 km/h has tires of 75.0 cm diameter. What is the angular speed of the tires about their axles? If the car is brought to a stop uniformly in 33.0 complete turns of the tires (without skidding), what is the magnitude of the angular acceleration of the wheels? How far does the car move during the braking?
What is the initial angular velocity of an object if it has an angular acceleration of α, a rotation time of t, a final angular position of θ, and an initial angular position of θo? (Need to rework equation to find initial angular velocity)
A car moving at 77 km/h has tires of 73 cm diameter. What is the angular speed of the tires about their axles? Your answer should be in rad/s, but enter only the numerical part in the box.