A radio telescope consists of two antennas separated by a distance of 200 m. Both antennas are
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A radio telescope consists of two antennas separated by a distance of 200 m. Both antennas are tuned to a particular frequency, such as 20 MHz. The signals from each antenna are fed into a common amplifier, but one signal first passes through a phase adjuster that delays its phase by a chosen amount so that the telescope can “look” in different directions. When the phase delay is zero, plane radio waves that are incident vertically on the antennas produce signals that add constructively at the amplifier. What should the phase delay be so that signals coming from an angle θ = 10o with the vertical (in the plane formed by the vertical and the line joining the antennas) will add constructively at the amplifier?
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