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Date May 2021 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 21M.2.HL.TZ1.6c.i
Level HL Paper 2 Time zone TZ1
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21M.2.HL.TZ1.6c.i

A painting is protected behind a transparent glass sheet of refractive index nglass. A coating of thickness w is added to the glass sheet to reduce reflection. The refractive index of the coating ncoating is such that nglass > ncoating > 1.

The diagram illustrates rays normally incident on the coating. Incident angles on the diagram are drawn away from the normal for clarity.

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State the Rayleigh criterion for resolution.

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central maximum of one diffraction pattern lies over the central/first minimum of the other diffraction pattern ✓

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