Optical resolutionexample

This simulation allows you to change the focal length and switch between convex and concave lenses to understand the image formation by either of them. Change the u and v to get real and inverted or virtual and erect images, lens formula application, and magnification as well.

By analogy with optical observations, e.g. in astronomy, the term optical resolution in structure determination,\(d_{opt}\), is used to describe the expected minimum distance between two resolved peaks in an electron-density map.

Optical resolutionformula

Optical resolutionChemistry

where σPatt is the standard deviation of the Gaussian function fitted to the Patterson origin peak, σsph is the standard deviation of the Gaussian function fitted to the origin peak of the spherical interference function, representing the Fourier transform of a sphere with radius 1 / dmin, and dmin is the nominal resolution.

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