How Many Lines in a Grating Must Be Illuminated to Obtain

question 15

Multiple Choice

How many lines in a grating must be illuminated to obtain a resolving power of 400 in a fourth-order spectrum?

• A)1,600
• B)100
• C)400
• D)10
• E)​40

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

A response variable whose variation is being studied to understand the impact of one or more independent variables.

Independent Variable

A factor in a study or simulation that is intentionally altered to examine its impact on the outcome variable.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors; a measure used in statistics to quantify the variation or deviation of predicted values from the actual observed values.

SST

SST stands for Sum of Squares Total, a term used in statistics to measure the total variability within a dataset.