Homework 17

Due: Friday 5 August 2016

If you are not taking the lab, turn this homework assignment into the box for Hongfei.
Answers to some of the problems have been provided on the last page. However, you must show
all your work and justify your answers!

Problem 1

The owner of a van installs a rear-window lens that has a focal length of 0.300 m . When the
owner looks out through the lens at a person standing directly behind the van, the person appears
to be just 0.240 m from the back of the van, and appears to be 0.34 m tall. How far from
the van is the person actually standing, and how tall is the person?

Problem 2
To focus a camera on objects at different distances, the converging lens is moved toward or away
from the image sensor, so a sharp image always falls on the sensor. A camera with a telephoto
lens ( f =200.0 mm ) is to be focused on an object located first at a distance of 3.5 m and
then at 50.0 m . Over what distance must the lens be movable?

Problem 3

An object is in front of a converging lens ( f =0.30 m ). The magnification of the lens is

m=4.0 .

(a) Relative to the lens, in what direction should the object be moved so that the magnification
changes to m=4.0 ?

(b) Through what distance should the object be moved?

Problem 4

A converging lens ( f =25.0 cm ) is used to project an image of an object onto a screen. The
object and the screen are 125 cm apart, and between them the lens can be placed at either of
two locations. Find the two object distances.
Problem 5
Two systems are formed from a converging lens and a diverging lens, as shown in parts a and b
of the drawing. (The point labeled Fconverging is the focal point of the converging lens.) An
object is placed inside the focal point of lens 1 at a distance of 10.00 cm to the left of lens 1.

The focal lengths of the converging and diverging lenses are 15.00 cm and 20.0 cm ,

respectively. The distance between the lenses is 50.0 cm . Determine the final image distance
for each system, measured with respect to lens 2.

Problem 6
Visitors at a science museum are invited to sit in a chair to the right of a full-length diverging
lens ( f 1 =3.00 m ) and observe a friend sitting in a second chair, 2.00 m to the left of the

lens. The visitor then presses a button and a converging lens ( f 2=+4.00 m ) rises from the
floor to a position 1.60 m to the right of the diverging lens, allowing the visitor to view the
friend through both lenses at once. Find the magnification of the friend when viewed through the
diverging lens only and the overall magnification of the friend when viewed through both lenses.
Be sure to include the algebraic signs ( + or ) with your answers.
 Answers
Problem 1
d o=1.2 mh o=1.7 m

Problem 2
0.01 m

Problem 3

(b) 0.15 m

Problem 4
34.5 cm90.5 cm

Problem 5

(a) 16 cm

(b) 20.4 cm

Problem 6
diverging only :+0.6
overall :+2.0