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What is the focal length of the lens in your eye when you can focus on an object at your near point? Assume that the distance from your lens to the back of your eye is 2.0 cm, that your near point is 21 cm in front of your lens, and that the liquid behind the lens has n=1.00 just like the air in front of your lens.
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- What is the focal length of the lens in your eye when you can focus on an object at your near point? Assume that the distance from your lens to the back of your eye is 2.0 cm, that your near point is 21 cm in front of your lens, and that the liquid behind the lens has n=1.00 just like the air in front of your lens. (a) 1.8 cm (b) 18 cm (c) 2.1 cm (d) 21 cm (e) None of the above.arrow_forwardIt is your first day at work as a summer intern at an optics company. Your supervisor hands you a diverging lens and asks you to measure its focal length. You know that with a converging lens, you can measure the focal length by placing an object a distance ss to the left of the lens, far enough from the lens for the image to be real, and viewing the image on a screen that is to the right of the lens. By adjusting the position of the screen until the image is in sharp focus, you can determine the image distance s′s′ and then use the equation 1s+1s′=1f1s+1s′=1f, to calculate the focal length ff of the lens. But this procedure won't work with a diverging lens−−by itself, a diverging lens produces only virtual images, which can't be projected onto a screen. Therefore, to determine the focal length of a diverging lens, you do the following: First you take a converging lens and measure that, for an object 20.0 cmcm to the left of the lens, the image is 29.7 cmcm to the right of the lens.…arrow_forwardA lens grinder wants to make a plane-convex lens with the radius of curvature 0.44 m and the focal length 0.8 m. What refractive index should the glass have?arrow_forward
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- A student's uncorrected near and far points are at 9.0 cm and infinity, respectively. She looks through a meniscus-shaped lens as shown in the figure. The absolute value of the radius of curvature is 2.4 cm on the side of the lens near her eye, and 2.6 cm on the side away from her eye. The index of refraction of the lens is 1.4. What is the closest an object can get to the lens and still be clearly visible to the student? [You may assume that the lens is very close to her eye.] eye 3.5 cm 78.0 cm 10.2 cm 8.1 cm 2.3 cmarrow_forwardA laser beam of diameter d1 = 1.3 mm is directed along the optical axis of a thin lens of focal length +5.1 cm (see figure below). (a) How far from the lens will the beam be focused?(b) A second positive lens is placed to the right of the first. Light emerges from the second lens in a parallel beam of diameter d2 = 3.9 mm. Thus the combination of lenses acts as a beam expander. Find the focal length of the second lens.Find the distance between the lenses.arrow_forward
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