College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN: 9781305952300

Author: Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 23, Problem 25P

A transparent sphere of unknown composition is observed to form an image of the Sun on its surface opposite the Sun. What is the refractive index of the sphere material?

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College Physics

Ch. 23.1 - In the overhead view if Figure 23.3, the image of...Ch. 23.3 - A person spearfishing from a boat sees a fish...Ch. 23.3 - True or False: (a) The image of an object placed...Ch. 23.5 - A clear plastic sandwich bag filled with water can...Ch. 23.5 - In Figure 23.25a, the blue object arrow is...Ch. 23.5 - An object is placed to the left of a converging...Ch. 23 - Tape a picture of yourself on a bathroom mirror....Ch. 23 - Prob. 2CQ Ch. 23 - The top row of Figure CQ23.3 shows three ray...Ch. 23 - Construct ray diagrams to determine whether each...

Ch. 23 - Construct ray diagrams to determine whether each...Ch. 23 - Prob. 6CQ Ch. 23 - Suppose you want to use a converging lens to...Ch. 23 - Lenses used in eyeglasses, whether converging or...Ch. 23 - In a Jules Verne novel, a piece of ice is shaped...Ch. 23 - If a cylinder of solid glass or clear plastic is...Ch. 23 - Prob. 11CQ Ch. 23 - Prob. 12CQ Ch. 23 - Why does the focal length of a mirror not depend...Ch. 23 - A person spear fishing from a boat sees a...Ch. 23 - An object represented by a gray arrow, is placed...Ch. 23 - (a) Does your bathroom mirror show you older or...Ch. 23 - Suppose you stand in front of a flat mirror and...Ch. 23 - Prob. 3P Ch. 23 - In a church choir loft, two parallel walls are...Ch. 23 - A periscope (Fig. P23.5) is useful for viewing...Ch. 23 - A dentist uses a mirror to examine a tooth that is...Ch. 23 - A convex spherical mirror, whose focal length has...Ch. 23 - To fit a contact lens to a patient's eye, a...Ch. 23 - A virtual image is formed 20.0 cm from a concave...Ch. 23 - While looking at her image in a cosmetic minor,...Ch. 23 - Prob. 11P Ch. 23 - A dedicated sports car enthusiast polishes the...Ch. 23 - A concave makeup mirror it designed to that a...Ch. 23 - A 1.80-m-tall person stands 9.00 m in front of a...Ch. 23 - A man standing 1.52 m in front of a shaving mirror...Ch. 23 - Prob. 16P Ch. 23 - At an intersection of hospital hallways, a convex...Ch. 23 - The mirror of a solar cooker focuses the Suns rays...Ch. 23 - A spherical mirror is to be used to form an image,...Ch. 23 - Prob. 20P Ch. 23 - A cubical block of ice 50.0 cm on an edge is...Ch. 23 - A goldfish is swimming inside a spherical bowl of...Ch. 23 - A paperweight is made of a solid hemisphere with...Ch. 23 - The top of a swimming pool is at ground level. If...Ch. 23 - A transparent sphere of unknown composition is...Ch. 23 - A man inside a spherical diving bell watches a...Ch. 23 - A jellyfish is floating in a water-filled aquarium...Ch. 23 - Figure P23.28 shows a curved surface separating a...Ch. 23 - A contact lens is made of plastic with an index of...Ch. 23 - A thin plastic lens with index of refraction n =...Ch. 23 - A converging lens has a local length of 10.0 cm....Ch. 23 - Prob. 32P Ch. 23 - A diverging lens has a focal length of magnitude...Ch. 23 - A diverging lens has a focal length of 20.0 cm....Ch. 23 - Prob. 35P Ch. 23 - The nickels image in Figure P23.36 has twice the...Ch. 23 - An object of height 8.00 cm it placed 25.0 cm to...Ch. 23 - An object is located 20.0 cm to the left of a...Ch. 23 - A converging lens is placed 30.0 cm to the right...Ch. 23 - (a) Use the thin-lens equation to derive an...Ch. 23 - Two converging lenses, each of focal length 15.0...Ch. 23 - A converging lens is placed at x = 0, a distance d...Ch. 23 - A 1.00-cm-high object is placed 4.00 cm to the...Ch. 23 - Two converging lenses having focal length of f1 =...Ch. 23 - Lens L1 in figure P23.45 has a focal length of...Ch. 23 - An object is placed 15.0 cm from a first...Ch. 23 - Prob. 47AP Ch. 23 - Prob. 48AP Ch. 23 - Prob. 49AP Ch. 23 - Prob. 50AP Ch. 23 - The lens and the mirror in figure P23.51 are...Ch. 23 - The object in Figure P23.52 is mid-way between the...Ch. 23 - Prob. 53AP Ch. 23 - Two rays travelling parallel to the principal axis...Ch. 23 - To work this problem, use the fact that the image...Ch. 23 - Consider two thin lenses, one of focal length f1...Ch. 23 - An object 2.00 cm high is placed 10.0 cm to the...Ch. 23 - Prob. 58AP Ch. 23 - Figure P23.59 shows a converging lens with radii...Ch. 23 - Prob. 60AP Ch. 23 - The lens-makers equation for a lens with index n1...Ch. 23 - An observer to the right of the mirror-lens...Ch. 23 - The lens-markers equation applies to a lens...Ch. 23 - Prob. 64AP Ch. 23 - A glass sphere (n = 1.50) with a radius of 15.0 cm...Ch. 23 - An object 10.0 cm tall is placed at the zero mark...

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