5.6 - Lens Formula and Sign Convention
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Practice Questions
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What is the lens formula?
💡 Hint: Think of the relation between focal length, image distance, and object distance.
How do you determine if an image is real or virtual?
💡 Hint: Recall the sign convention.
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What does the lens formula relate?
💡 Hint: Consider all elements involved.
True or False: The image distance in a concave lens is always positive.
💡 Hint: Refer to the definitions of real and virtual images.
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Challenge Problems
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A convex lens has a focal length of 15 cm. An object is placed 20 cm from the lens. Find the image distance and describe the nature of the image.
💡 Hint: Carefully substitute values into the lens formula and evaluate.
If a concave lens forms a virtual image of an object at 10 cm, and the focal length is -5 cm, determine the object distance.
💡 Hint: Use the lens formula carefully to derive the object distance.
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