Your television picture is created by 480 horizontal lines of pixels, arranged o

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Your television picture is created by 480 horizontal lines of pixels, arranged on a screen of total height h. Assume that your ability to resolve the lines is limited only by the Rayleigh criterion, and that the pupils of your eyes are 4.94 mm in diameter. Beyond a certain distance from the screen L, you won't be able to resolve individual lines of pixels and the TV picture will not appear pointillistic. Calculate this ratio L/hof minimum viewing distance to screen height. Assume that the average wavelength of the light coming from the screen is 572 nm.

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rayleigh criterion sin theta = 1.22 lambda/D

Lambda = 572 nm

sin theta = (1.22* 572*10^-9/(4.94*10^-3)

sin theta = 0.000141

theta = 0.008 deg

tan theta = y/D

y = h/480

h/L = 480*tan(theta)

L/h = 1/(480*tan(theta))

L/h = 1/(480*tan(0.008))

L/h =14.92 is the ration of L/h

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