We have that the electric field at the center of the metal ball due only to the charges on the surface of the metal ball is
From the question we are told that
A solid metal ball of radius 1.5 cm
bearing a charge of -15 nC is located near a hollow plastic ball of radius 1.9 cm bearing
uniformly distributed charge of -7 nC
The distance between the centers of the balls is 9 cm
Generally the equation for the electric field is mathematically given as
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Answer:
Option d
The minimum angular separation between two objects that the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve is .
Explanation:
The resulting image in a telescope that will be gotten from an object is a diffraction pattern instead of a perfect point (point spread function (PSF)).
That diffraction pattern is gotten because the light encounters different obstacles on its path inside the telescope (interacts with the walls and edges of the instrument).
The diffraction pattern is composed by a central disk, called Airy disk, and diffraction rings.
The angular resolution is defined as the minimal separation at which two sources can be resolved one for another, or in other words, when the distance between the two diffraction pattern maxima is greater than the radius of the Airy disk.
The angular resolution can be determined in analytical way by means of the Rayleigh criterion.
(1)
Where is the wavelength and D is the diameter of the telescope.
Notice that it is necessary to express the wavelength in the same units than the diameter.
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Finally, equation 1 can be used.
Hence, the minimum angular separation between two objects that the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve is .