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← ScienceDuring Schlieren imaging of a heated turbine blade, which mechanism ultimately limits aberration resolution?
A)Air density gradient variability
B)Diffraction around the cutoff✓
C)Ambient thermodynamic capacitance increases
D)Infrared refractive index saturation
💡 Explanation
Diffraction inherently blurs the image because of the wave nature of light; Huygens' principle defines how waves constructively and destructively interfere. Therefore, diffraction is the fundamental limit, rather than variance in the optical effects in heated materials surrounding the observed gradients.
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