Chapter 34: Q. 1 (page 990)
A point source of light illuminates an aperture away. A wide bright patch of light appears on a screen behind the aperture. How wide is the aperture?
Short Answer
The aperture width,
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Chapter 34: Q. 1 (page 990)
A point source of light illuminates an aperture away. A wide bright patch of light appears on a screen behind the aperture. How wide is the aperture?
The aperture width,
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A fortune teller鈥檚 鈥渃rystal ball鈥 (actually just glass) is 10 cm in diameter. Her secret ring is placed 6.0 cm from the edge of the ball.
a. An image of the ring appears on the opposite side of the crystal ball. How far is the image from the center of the ball?
b. Draw a ray diagram showing the formation of the image.
c. The crystal ball is removed and a thin lens is placed where the center of the ball had been. If the image is still in the same position, what is the focal length of the lens?
A tall object is in front of a diverging lens that has a focal length.
Use ray tracing to find the position and height of the image. To do this accurately, use a ruler or paper with a grid. Determine the image distance and image height by making measurements on your diagram.
Calculate the image position and height. Compare with your ray-tracing answers in part .
A keratometer is an optical device used to measure the radius of curvature of the eye鈥檚 cornea鈥攊ts entrance surface. This measurement is especially important when fitting contact lenses, which must match the cornea鈥檚 curvature. Most light incident on the eye is transmitted into the eye, but some light reflects from the cornea, which, due to its curvature, acts like a convex mirror. The keratometer places a small, illuminated ring of known diameter 7.5 cm in front of the eye. The optometrist, using an eyepiece, looks through the center of this ring and sees a small virtual image of the ring that appears to be behind the cornea. The optometrist uses a scale inside the eyepiece to measure the diameter of the image and calculate its magnification. Suppose the optometrist finds that the magnification for one patient is 0.049. What is the absolute value of the radius of curvature of her cornea?
To determine the focal length of a lens, you place the lens in front of a small lightbulb and then adjust a viewing screen to get a sharply focused image. Varying the lens position produces the following data:

Use the best-fit line of an appropriate graph to determine the focal length of the lens.
A biologist keeps a specimen of his favorite beetle embedded in a cube of polystyrene plastic. The hapless bug appears to be within the plastic. What is the beetle's actual distance beneath the surface?
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