The 24-M Diameter Hubble Space Telescope Has Been Placed into Earth

question 54

Multiple Choice

The 2.4-m diameter Hubble space telescope has been placed into Earth orbit by the space shuttle. Assuming a wavelength of 710 nm, what angular resolution could this telescope achieve by Rayleigh's criterion? (1 nm = 10^-9 m)

• A) 5.7 *10^-6 rad
• B) 7.5 *10^-6 rad
• C) 3.6 *10^-7 rad
• D) 2.5 *10^-7 rad

Evaluate the American public's reaction to President Theodore Roosevelt's strategy for securing rights to an isthmian canal.

Assess the emergence of the United States as an overseas imperial power in 1898, distinguishing between chance and political strategy.

Connect the crisis of the 1890s in the United States to its subsequent foreign policy decisions.

Understand how to construct a confidence interval for a population mean.

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