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You stand on a straight desert road at night and observe avehicle approaching. This vehicle is equipped with two smallheadlights that are 0.621m apart. At what distance, in kilometers,are you marginally able to discern that there are two headlightsrather than a single light source? Take the wavelength of the lightto be 559nm and your pupil diameter to be 4.69mm. Answer in km!

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The two point light sources distant headlights each form concentricring diffraction patterns on the retina due to the circular aperture of the eye pupil these two    See Answer
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