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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 72 3 i Solution by
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Use the small-angle, thin gravitational lens equation geometry. An undeflected ray seen at angular position would have transverse source position . Bending that ray through physical angle at the lens changes its source intercept by . Thusand the required physical deflection isAlso . Define the reduced deflection as the angular difference . Dividing the first equation by givesThese are angular diameter distances; in a cosmological spacetime one must not replace by as if the distances were ordinary collinear Euclidean lengths.
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