Friday, October 10, 2014

If you could shine a very powerful flashlight beam toward the Moon, estimate the diameter of the...

If you could shine a very powerful flashlight beam toward the Moon, estimate the diameter of the beam when it reaches the Moon. Assume that the beam leaves the flashlight through a5.5-cm aperture, that its white light has an average wavelength of550?nm, and that the beam spreads due to diffraction only. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is384Ă—103km.

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