Resolving Power Definition

Resolving Power Sentence Examples

• The definition of a fine vertical line, and consequently the resolving power for contiguous vertical lines, is thus independent of the vertical aperture of the instrument, a law of great importance in the theory of the spectroscope.

• The resolving power of a telescope with circular or rectangular aperture is easily investigated experimentally.

• Merely to show the dependence of resolving power on aperture it is not necessary to use a telescope at all.

• In estimating theoretically the resolving power on a double star we have to consider the illumination of the field due to the superposition of the two independent images.

• The statement of the law of resolving power has been made in a form appropriate to the microscope, but it admits also of immediate application to the telescope.