Exam 33: Geometric Optics

A person's eye lens is 2.7 cm away from the retina. This lens has a near point of 25 cm and a far point at infinity. (a) What must the focal length of this lens be in order for an object placed at the near point of the eye to focus on the retina? (b) What must the focal length of this lens be in order for an object placed at the far point of the eye to focus on the retina?

A fisherman in a stream 39 cm deep looks downward into the water and sees a rock on the stream bed. How deep does the stream appear to the fisherman? The index of refraction of the water is 1.33.

A magnifying glass uses a converging lens with a refractive power of 20 diopters. What is the magnification if the image is to be viewed by a relaxed eye (image at the far point) having a near point of 25 cm and a far point at infinity?

The spherical side mirror on a car is convex and has a radius of curvature of 25 cm. Another car is following, 20 m behind the mirror. If the height of the car is 1.6 m, how tall is its image?

The near point of a person's uncorrected eyes is 125.0 cm and the far point is at infinity. What is the focal length of a contact lens that will move the near point to 25.0 cm from this person's eyes?

An optical system comprises in turn, from left to right: an observer, a lens of focal length +30 cm, an erect object 20 mm high, and a convex mirror of radius 80 cm. The object is between the lens and the mirror, 20 cm from the lens and 50 cm from the mirror. The observer views the image that is formed first by reflection and then by refraction. What is the position of the final image, measured from the mirror?

The focal length of a thin lens is 40 mm and its aperture diameter is 10 mm. What is the f-number of this lens?

A thin double convex lens is to focus the image of an object onto a screen so that the image is life-sized. The lens surfaces have equal radii of curvature of 112 cm, and the refractive index of the lens material is 1.500. (a) How far from the lens should the screen be placed? (b) How far is the screen from the object?

A convex lens has a focal length f. An object is placed at a distance between f and 2f on a line perpendicular to the center of the lens. The image formed is located at what distance from the lens?

Suppose you place your face in front of a concave mirror. Which one of the following statements is correct?

An object is placed 10 cm from a convex lens of focal length 20 cm. What is the lateral magnification of the object?

The eyepiece of a compound microscope has a focal length of 2.50 cm and the objective has a focal length of 1.60 cm. The two lenses are separated by 15.0 cm. The microscope is used by a person with normal eyes (near point at 25 cm). What is the angular magnification of the microscope?

An object 4.0 cm in height is placed 8.0 cm in front of a concave spherical mirror with a focal length of 10.0 cm. What is the position of its image in relation to the mirror, and what are the characteristics of the image?

An object is placed in front of a lens which forms an image of the object.

The distance between the object and the eyepiece of a compound microscope is 25.0 cm. The focal length of its objective lens is 0.200 cm and the eyepiece has a focal length of 2.60 cm. A person with a near point of 25.0 cm and a far point at infinity is using the microscope. (a) What is the angular magnification obtainable using the eyepiece alone as a magnifying lens if the final image is at the person's far point? (b) What is the total magnification of the microscope when used by the person of normal eyesight?

What is the focal length of the corrective contact lens needed by a nearsighted person whose far point is 60 cm?

The left-hand end of a glass rod is ground to a spherical surface. The glass has index of refraction 1.50. A small object 4.00 mm tall is placed on the axis of the rod, 37.0 cm to the left of the vertex of the spherical surface. The image is formed in the rod, 50.0 cm to the right of the vertex. (a) What is the magnitude of the radius of curvature of the spherical surface at the end of the rod? (b) What is the height of the image?

A concave spherical mirror with a radius of 20 cm creates a real image 30 cm from the mirror. How far is the object from the mirror?

A convex lens has a focal length f. An object is placed between infinity and 2f from the lens along a line perpendicular to the center of the lens. The image is located at what distance from the lens?

When an object 1.15 cm tall is placed 12 cm from a lens, the lens produces an upright image of the object that is 5.75 cm tall. What is the focal length of the lens?