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Textbook Solutions for Physics: Principles with Applications

Chapter 23 Problem 17

Question

You look at yourself in a shiny 8.8-cm-diameter Christmas tree ball. If your face is 25.0 cm away from the balls front surface, where is your image? Is it real or virtual? Is it upright or inverted?

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The first step in solving 23 problem number 17 trying to solve the problem we have to refer to the textbook question: You look at yourself in a shiny 8.8-cm-diameter Christmas tree ball. If your face is 25.0 cm away from the balls front surface, where is your image? Is it real or virtual? Is it upright or inverted?
From the textbook chapter Light: Geometric Optics you will find a few key concepts needed to solve this.

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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 7 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780321625922

You look at yourself in a shiny 8.8-cm-diameter Christmas

Chapter 23 textbook questions

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