If you could shine a very powerful flashlight beam toward

Chapter 25, Problem 57

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If you could shine a very powerful flashlight beam toward the Moon, estimate the diameter of the beam when it reaches the Moon. Assume that the beam leaves the flashlight through a 5.0-cm aperture, that its white light has an average wavelength of 550 nm, and that the beam spreads due to diffraction only.

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