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Past exam of the physics A course of the University of Cambridge 2015 Paper 2 Section A 1 b Solution by
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At distance , the small-angle approximation gives . Thus the transverse resolution is approximately , or with the circular-aperture Rayleigh criterion. This is a transverse separation at the source, rather than a determination of its distance along the line of sight.
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