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    This document contains 7 questions related to calculating properties of telescopes and diffraction gratings based on given parameters like diameter, wavelength, grating spacing, diffraction order. The questions involve calculating angular resolution, diameter for a given resolution, wavelength from diffraction order and angle, angle between diffracted images, angular separation of spectral lines, and maximum diffraction order for a given grating spacing and wavelength.

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    1. The diameter of the largest telescope objective is 80 inch.

    Calculate the angular separation of the


    object that it can resolve. λ=5500A0 (Ans:0.069 seconds)

    2.Calculate the diameter of a telescope lens if a resolution of 0.1 seconds arc is required at λ=6x10 -7 m
    (Ans:1.509m)

    3.A parallel beam of monochromatic light is allowed to be incident normally on a plane transmission
    grating having 5000lines/cm and the third order spectral line is found to be diffracted through
    450.Calculate the wavelength (Ans:4715 A 0)

    4. Calculate the angle between the central image of a clamp filament and its first diffracted image
    produced by a fabric with 160 threads/cm. λ=6x10 -5cm(Ans:0.550)

    5. A plane transmission grating which has 5500 lines/cm is used to produce a spectrum of light from a
    mercury lamp. What will be the angular separation of the two yellow lines of wavelength 5770 A 0 and
    5791A0 when viewed in the second order? (Ans:10’)

    6. With a diffraction grating arranged for normal incidence, it is found that a spectral line of the second
    order spectrum coincides with a spectral line of third order. If the wavelength of former is 6000A 0.What
    is the wavelength of later(Ans:4000A 0)

    7. If the grating element is 2x10-4 cm, how many order of spectrum are possible for a light of wavelength
    650nm (Ans:3)

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