A spaceship is coming directly toward you while youare in the International Space

Chapter 2, Problem 101

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A spaceship is coming directly toward you while youare in the International Space Station. You are toldthat the spaceship is shining sodium light (with anintense yellow doublet of wavelengths 588.9950 and589.5924 nm). You have an apparatus that can resolvetwo closely spaced wavelengths if the difference is 0.55 nm. If you fi nd that you can just resolve thedoublet, how fast is the spaceship traveling with respectto you?

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