A Radar Installation Operates at 9000 MHz with an Antenna

question 29

Multiple Choice

A radar installation operates at 9000 MHz with an antenna (dish) that is 15 meters across. Determine the maximum distance (in kilometers) for which this system can distinguish two aircraft 100 meters apart.

• A) 7.4 km
• B) 370 km
• C) 3700 m
• D) 37 km
• E) 740 km

Identify how government interventions (e.g., taxes) can affect market outcomes in the presence of externalities.

Analyze the impact of transaction costs on the ability to achieve efficient solutions to externality problems.

Distinguish between the concepts of internalizing externalities and the role of property rights in this process.

Understand the relationship between marginal social benefit, marginal social cost, and the efficient quantity of pollution or externalities.

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Definitions:

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