If a microscope has a resolution of 300 nm and you use it to observe 2 cells that are 320 nm apart, would they look blurry, or will you be able to see 2 separate cells?

Explanation:

Resolving power of an instrument is the power to show two very closely positioned object as separate entity. Due to diffraction of light sometimes two very closely held objects do not look separate. Their images appear to be overlapping on each other . Their images get blurred.

Similarly two stars which are millions of kilometers  separate appear to be a single star due to diffraction of light. But with the help of powerful optical instruments we can resolve them into separate star or look them as separate star This is called the resolving power of optical instrument.

A high power instrument will resolve very closely held object. An instrument which can resolve two objects 2 mm separate can easily resolve objects 3 mm separate .

The given problem describes a microscope having a resolution of 300 nm that means it can resolve two objects held as close as 300 nm . Naturally it can easily resolve two objects which are held at greater distance like at a distance of 320 nm. So it will definitely show two cells separate if they are at a distance of 320 nm.

quantum mechanics or quantum physics is physics of very small objects (particles) and physical entities.

quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

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information: because weak acids/bases have low concentration of hydrogen ions, the addition of water has a large impact on the ph. 2. a difference in 1 unit is a 10x difference in concentration for example; a liquid with ph of 3 is 10x more acidic than a liquid with a ph of 4. therefore, a liquid with a ph of 3 is stronger.

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