Question: The human eye can barely detect a star whose intensity at the earth's surface is (1.6 times 10^{-11} mathrm{~W} / mathrm{m}^{2}). If the dark-adapted eye

The human eye can barely detect a star whose intensity at the earth's surface is \(1.6 \times 10^{-11} \mathrm{~W} / \mathrm{m}^{2}\). If the dark-adapted eye has a pupil diameter of \(7.0 \mathrm{~mm}\), how many photons per second enter the eye from the star? Assume the starlight has a wavelength of \(550 \mathrm{~nm}\).

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