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4.5 Exercise 21

Avg difficulty 2.5

The characters of a stadium scoreboard are formed with closely spaced lightbulbs that radiate primarily yellow light. (Use λ=600nm.\lambda = 600 \text{nm} .) How closely must the bulbs be spaced so that an observer 80 m away sees a display of continuous lines rather than the individual bulbs? Assume that the pupil of the observer’s eye has a diameter of 5.0 mm.

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