What should the phase delay


A radio telescope consists of two antennas separated by a distance of 250.0 m. Both antennas are tuned to a particular frequency, such as 55.0 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 16.0 ° with the vertical (in the plane formed by the vertical and the line joining the antennas) will add constructively at the amplifier? The speed of light is 3.000×108 m/s.

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