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Author Topic: What is the total distance between object and image?  (Read 14086 times)
Steve
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« on: June 20, 2011, 10:55:05 PM »

A thin, bi-convex lens is to focus an image onto a screen such that the image is life-size. The lens has two equal radii of 120 cm, and a refractive index of n = 1.3.

That's all the info given. I can calculate for focal length and I get 200 cm(correct me if i'm wrong), but don't know what to do from there. The answer, btw, is supposed to 800 cm. Thank you!
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2011, 11:22:26 PM »

You are correct, f = 200cm

Since the image is life-sized, l = l'
1/l + 1/l' = 1/f
2/l = 1/200
l = 2 * 200 = 400 cm

The question asks the distance between the object and the image = l + l` = 2l = 800 cm.
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