A camera lens with focal length f = 50 mm and maximum aperture f>2 forms an image of an object 9.0 m away. (a) If the resolution is limited
by diffraction, what is the minimum distance between two points on the
object that are barely resolved? What is the corresponding distance
between image points? (b) How does the situation change if the lens is
“stopped down” to f>16? Use λ= 500 nm in both cases

Glass is transparent to visibile light under normal conditions; however, at extremely high intensities, glass will absorb most of the light incident upon it. this works through a process known as multiphoton absorption. in this process, several photons are absorbed at the same time. if very intense light whose photons carry 2ev of energy is shined onto a material with a band gap of 4ev, that light can be absorbed through two-photon absorption, because two photons have the right amount of energy to bridge the band gap. what is the minimum number of photons of 800-nm light that are needed to equal or exceed the band gap of fused silica glass

Steam enters an adiabatic diffuser at 150 kpa and 1208c with a velocity of 550 m/s. determine the minimum velocity that the steam can have at the outlet when the outlet pressure is 300 kpa.

Imagine that someone pushes one marble toward a motionless marble. would there still be action-reaction forces involved in the collision? how might the marbles’ motions be changed? ?