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I first took lamda and 490 to the 4th power and I got (lamda)^4/5.77*10^10. Then I crossed multiply by 200, I then recived 1.15E13...and I took the fourth root of that and received 1841 but its apparently wrong

Homework Statement Infrared telescopes, which use special infrared detectors, are able to peer farther into star-forming regions of the galaxy because infrared light is not scattered as strongly as is visible light by the tenuous clouds of hydrogen gas from which new stars are created...

Homework Statement There's one angle of incidence β onto a prism for which the light inside an isosceles prism travels parallel to the base and emerges at angle β. (Figure 1) Homework Equations Find an expression for β in terms of the prism's apex angle α and index of refraction n...