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ISBN: 9780321976444

Author: James S. Walker

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 28, Problem 77GP

When reading the printout from a laser printer, you are actually looking at an array of tiny dots. If the pupil of your eye is 4.3 mm in diameter when reading a page held 28 cm from your eye, what is the minimum separation of adjacent dots that can be resolved? (Assume light with a wavelength of 540 nm, and use 1.36 as the index of refraction for the interior of the eye.)

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