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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition
25
Optical Instruments
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25-1: Camera
25-2: Eye and Corrective Lenses
25-3: Magnifying Glass
25-4: Telescopes
25-5: Microscopes
25-6: Lens Aberrations
25-7 to 25-9: Resolution Limits
25-11: X-Ray Diffraction
25-12: Imaging by Tomography

Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 49
Q

The eyepiece of a compound microscope has a focal length of 2.80 cm and the objective lens has f = 0.740 cm. If an object is placed 0.790 cm from the objective lens, calculate

  1. the distance between the lenses when the microscope is adjusted for a relaxed eye, and
  2. the total magnification.
A
  1. 14.5 cm
  2. 130X
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