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Calculate the resolving power of a microscope, whose limit of resolution is `2.4xx10^(-4) m . `

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R.P. `= 1 // `limit of resolution or
R.P. `= 1 //` dx
` = 4.166 xx 10^(3) m^(-1)`
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