Solution

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One image takes if means one completed scan line per second. The slow-axis speed is . Recording a wire spanning along that axis therefore takes . Meanwhile the fast-axis drift is , giving a transverse displacement of . The apparent straight-line length is
Its slow-axis projection remains ; the overestimate refers to length along the slanted trace.
With the wire along the fast axis and drift along the slow axis, its length is acquired within one line, so . Taking a forward sweep of across , the wire is crossed in and the perpendicular displacement is only . The corresponding length change is about , far below the pixel pitch. For the convention in which one hertz includes a forward and reverse sweep, that already negligible displacement halves. The slow-axis calculation still uses one completed line per second.

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