The amount of spreading of light after it goes through anopening
a. would be larger if the opening got narrower, just as wouldhappen to sound.
b. the amount of interference after two slits that are as wideas this opening.
c. predicted by the law of refraction applied to openingsinstead of materials.
d. is independent of the width of the opening and dependent onthe wavelength of light.
e. is independent of the wavelength of light and depedent on thewidth of the opening.
The inability to distinguish two distant light sources looked atthrough a circular aperture is due to
a. the diffraction pattern of light going past the edges of thecircular aperture.
b. a well-known flaw in the psychological perception of distantlight.
c. the multiple refractions the two light rays experience ontheir path to the observer.
d. the excessive nearsightedness of the observer looking throughthe aperture.
e. the destructive interference of the two light waves beforethey reach the aperture.
