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Chapter 34 Problem 91

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Figure 34-46a shows the basic structure of a human eye. Light refracts into the eye through the cornea and is then further redirected by a lens whose shape (and thus ability to focus the light) is controlled by muscles. We can treat the cornea and eye lens as a single effective thin lens (Fig. 34-46b). A "normal" eye can focus parallel light rays from a distant object 0 to a point on the retina at the back of the eye, where processing of the visual information begins. As an object is brought close to the eye, however, the muscles must change the shape of the lens so that rays form an inverted real image on the retina (Fig. 34-46c). (a) Suppose that for the parallel rays of Figs. 34-46a and b, the focal length f of the effective thin lens of the eye is 2.50 cm. For an object at distance p = 40.0 cm, what focal length f' of the effective lens is required for the object to be seen clearly? (b) PROBLEMS 955 Must the eye muscles increase or decrease the radii of curvature of the eye lens to give focallengthf'?

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Title Fundamentals of Physics Extended 9 
Author David Halliday
ISBN 9780470469088

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