The science museum where you work is constructing a new

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The science museum where you work is constructing a new display. You are given a glass rod that is surrounded by air and was ground on its left-hand end to form a hemispherical surface there. You must determine the radius of curvature of that surface and the index of refraction of the glass. Remembering the optics portion of your physics course, you place a small object to the left of the rod, on the rods optic axis, at a distance s from the vertex of the hemispherical surface. You measure the distance s of the image from the vertex of the surface, with the image being to the right of the vertex. Your measurements are as follows: s 1cm2 22.5 25.0 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 s 1cm2 271.6 148.3 89.4 71.1 60.8 53.2 Recalling that the objectimage relationships for thin lenses and spherical mirrors include reciprocals of distances, you plot your data as 1>s versus 1>s. (a) Explain why your data points plotted this way lie close to a straight line. (b) Use the slope and y-intercept of the best-fit straight line to your data to calculate the index of refraction of the glass and the radius of curvature of the hemispherical surface of the rod. (c) Where is the image if the object distance is 15.0 cm?