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Chapter 18 Problem 64GP

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Problem 64GP

A near-sighted person might correct his vision by wearing diverging lenses with focal length f = -50 cm. When wearing his glasses, he looks not at actual objects but at the virtual images of those objects formed by his glasses. Suppose he looks at a 12-cm-long pencil held vertically 2.0 m from his glasses. Use ray tracing to determine the location and height of the image.

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From the textbook chapter Ray Optics you will find a few key concepts needed to solve this.

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Title College Physics 12 
Author Randall D. Knight
ISBN 9780321595492

A near-sighted person might correct his vision by wearing

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