Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 27 - Optical Instruments - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 971: 49

Answer

(a) $9.042\times 10^{-3}rad$ (b) $2.1m$

Work Step by Step

(a) We can find the angular size of the Moon as follows: $\theta=tan^{-1}\frac{y}{x}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\theta=tan^{-1}\frac{3476}{384,400}$ $\theta=9.042\times 10^{-3}rad$ (b) We know that $tan\theta=\frac{d}{x}$ This can be rearranged as: $x=\frac{d}{\theta}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $x=\frac{0.019}{tan(9.042\times 10^{-3})}$ $x=2.1m$
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