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lilldybug07

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The Yerkes refracting telescope has a 1-m diameter objective lens of focal length 20 m and an eyepiece of focal length 2.0 cm. What is the magnification of the planet Mars as seen through this telescope?
 a. 800
  c. 400
  b. 1000
  d. 200

Question 2

A refracting astronomical telescope has objective and eyepiece lenses of focal lengths 38 cm and 0.40 cm, respectively. What is the angular magnification of this instrument?
 a. 95
  c. 27
  b. 50
  d. 19.6



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TheNamesImani

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

A




lilldybug07

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Reply 2 on: Jul 28, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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