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PHYS142 Team Problem 10 Lenses and Refraction
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Physics 142 Team Problem 10: Lenses and Refraction
If we position a lens of focal length f , it will produce an image of an object at do at di ,
given
1 1 1
+ = (1)
do di f
The image will have a magnification of m where
di
m=− (2)
do
Recall that a negative focal length indicates a diverging mirror, a negative image distance
indicates a virtual image, and a negative magnification indicates an inverted image.
1. One of your team members lost her glasses in a river. She is nearsighted and cannot
see long distances without them. You are on an expedition to map a remote area in
southern Argentina, and her long-distance vision is crucial to her role in the group. You
can request a new pair of glasses for her that will be delivered with the next airdrop of
supplies, but she does not know her lens prescription.
(a) Does she need a converging or diverging lens?
Solution: A diverging lens.
(b) Roughly what do the glasses need to do for your team member’s far point?
Solution: The far point for typical human vision has to be at infinity. Your
team member has a far point at some finite distance (probably less than 10 m).
We need to make a lens that has a virtual image at the team member’s far point
for objects at infinity.
(c) Glasses are typically worn several centimeters from the lens of one’s eye, unlike
contact lenses. What effect does the distance the glasses are from her lens have?
Solution: The object distance is from the object to the first lens (the eye-
glasses) is infinite. The image from the eyeglass lens will be at the far point
from her eye (so we can treat it as the object for the eye’s lens). However, the
image distance from the eyeglass lens will be a few centimeters smaller than
the far point, to account for the separation between the eyeglasses and the eye.
For instance, a person with a far point of 1.00 m might need the eyeglasses to
produce an image of a far-away object at -0.98 m from the eyeglasses to produce
something the eye sees at 1.00 m from the eye. For contact lenses, which sit on
the eye, they can focus the image at -1.00 m from the contacts, which will be
seen as 1.00 m from the eye.
(d) You do a simple eye test and estimate her far point to be 623.0 cm from her eyes.
Assuming she will wear her glasses 2.0 cm in front of her eyes, what should be the
focal length of her new lenses?
Solution: What we need to happen here is to have do → ∞ and di = − (623 − 2) =

621 cm. Using the thin lens equation
1 1 1
+ = (3)
di do f
The limit of 1/do as do gets large is 0, so that gives us
1 1
= (4)
di f
So the focal length is -621 cm or -6.21 m.
(e) What should be the refractive power of her new lenses (in diopters)?
Solution: The refractive power in diopters is just the inverse of the focal length
in meters, so -0.16. Note the negative sign.
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Ray Tracing
2. A diverging lens has a focal length of -20.0 cm. A 6.0-cm-tall object is located 20.0 cm
in front of this lens.
(a) Using a ray diagram drawn to scale, determine the (a) location and (b) size of the
image. Note that the mirror must be drawn to scale. Be sure to label the scale on
the diagram.
Solution:
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(b) Check your answers with the thin-lens and magnification equations.
Solution: We know do = 20.0 cm, and ho = 6.0 cm, as well as f = −20.0 cm.
This lets us find
−1
1 1
di = − (5)
f do
as 10 cm and a virtual image. Now, that means the magnification will be
di
m=− (6)
do
or 0.5, so the height of the image will be 3 cm and it will be upright.
3. A 1.0-cm-high object is situated 9.0 cm in front of a converging lens that has a focal
length of +3.0 cm.
(a) Using a ray diagram drawn to scale, measure (a) the location and (b) the height
of the image. The lens must be drawn to scale. Be sure to label the scale on the
diagram.
Solution:
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(b) Check your answers with the mirror and magnification equations. Show your work.
Solution: do = 9.0 cm, and ho = 1.0cm. From the definition of the focal length
we have f = 3.0cm. This lets us find
−1
1 1
di = − (7)
f do
as 4.5 cm and a real image. Now, that means the magnification will be
di
m=− (8)
do
or -0.5, so the height of the image will be 0.5 cm and it will be inverted.
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Solution: What we need to happen here is to have do → ∞ and di = − (623 − 2) =

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