GENERAL PHYSICS 2
SECOND SEMESTER SY 2020-2021
PROBLEM SET 12
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Chapter 25: Geometric Optics
Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC)
1. Explain image formation as an application of reflection, refraction,
and paraxial approximation
2. Relate properties of mirrors and lenses (radii of curvature, focal
length, index of refraction [for lenses]) to image and object distance
and sizes
3. Determine graphically and mathematically the type (virtual/real),
magnification, location, and orientation of image of a point and
extended object produced by a plane or spherical mirror
4. Determine graphically and mathematically the type (virtual/real),
magnification, location/ apparent depth, and orientation of image of
a point and extended object produced by a lens or series of lenses
5. Apply the principles of geometric optics to discuss image formation
by the eye, and correction of common vision defects
Direction: Solve each problem carefully and completely. Write your solutions on
a separate sheet of paper. Observe proper reporting of numerical answers.
1. A pencil that is 9.0 cm long is held perpendicular to the surface of a plane
mirror with the tip of the pencil lead 12.0 cm from the mirror surface and the
end of the eraser 21.0 cm from the mirror surface. What is the length of the
image of the pencil that is formed by the mirror? Which end of the image is
closer to the mirror surface: the tip of the lead or the end of the eraser?
2. A dentist uses a curved mirror to view teeth on the upper side of the mouth.
Suppose she wants an erect image with a magnification of 2.00 when the
mirror is 1.25 cm from a tooth. (Treat this problem as though the object and
image lie along a straight line.)
a. What kind of mirror (concave or convex) is needed? Use a ray
diagram to decide, without performing any calculations.
b. What must be the focal length and radius of curvature of this mirror?
c. Draw a principal-ray diagram to check your answer in part (b).
3. A small tropical fish is at the center of a water-filled, spherical fish bowl 28.0
cm in diameter.
a. Find the apparent position and magnification of the fish to an
observer outside the bowl. The effect of the thin walls of the bowl
may be ignored.
b. A friend advised the owner of the bowl to keep it out of direct sunlight
to avoid blinding the fish, which might swim into the focal point of the
parallel rays from the sun. Is the focal point within the bowl?
4. You wish to project the image of a slide on a screen 9.00 m from the lens
of a slide projector.
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a. If the slide is placed 15.0 cm from the lens, what focal length lens is
required?
b. If the dimensions of the picture on a 35 mm color slide are 24 mm *
36 mm, what is the minimum size of the projector screen required to
accommodate the image?
5. Contact lenses are placed right on the eyeball, so the distance from the eye
to an object (or image) is the same as the distance from the lens to that
object (or image). A certain person can see distant objects well, but his near
point is 45.0 cm from his eyes instead of the usual 25.0 cm.
a. Is this person nearsighted or farsighted?
b. What type of lens (converging or diverging) is needed to correct his
vision?
c. If the correcting lenses will be contact lenses, what focal length lens
is needed and what is its power in diopters?
6. The focal length of a simple magnifier is 8.00 cm. Assume the magnifier is
a thin lens placed very close to the eye.
a. How far in front of the magnifier should an object be placed if the
image is formed at the observer’s near point, 25.0 cm in front of her
eye?
b. If the object is 1.00 mm high, what is the height of its image formed
by the magnifier?
7. A telescope is constructed from two lenses with focal lengths of 95.0 cm
and 15.0 cm, the 95.0 cm lens being used as the objective. Both the object
being viewed and the final image are at infinity.
a. Find the angular magnification for the telescope.
b. Find the height of the image formed by the objective of a building
60.0 m tall, 3.00 km away.
c. What is the angular size of the final image as viewed by an eye very
close to the eyepiece?
8. A compound microscope has an objective lens with focal length 14.0 mm
and an eyepiece with focal length 20.0 mm. The final image is at infinity.
The object to be viewed is placed 2.0 mm beyond the focal point of the
objective lens.
a. What is the distance between the two lenses?
b. Without making the approximation 𝑠1 ≈ 𝑓1 , use 𝑀 = 𝑚1 𝑀2 with 𝑚1 =
−𝑠1 ′ > 𝑠1 to find the overall angular magnification of the microscope.
c. What is the percentage difference between your result and the result
obtained if the approximation 𝑠1 ≈ 𝑓1 is used to find M?
CLOSURE
If you are reading this statement, this is because you are either done on answering
the activity sheet or clueless on what to do with the problems. Either way, you still
have a lot to learn when studying physics, and this means more adventures and
discoveries in the mysteries of life using physics. For now, you learned the
concepts on Electromagnetic Waves and Nature of Light.
General Physics 2
Second Semester SY 2020-2021
Jensen C. Edos | Teacher
