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Lens question help!

https://isaacphysics.org/questions/two_lens_microscope?stage=a_level
Can you please help me answer part b?
I got that the focal length for a is 3 cm
And I have tried to use values and got 2.5 as the movement
I am a little confused by lenses does it mean that if it emerges as a parallel beam then the focal length is infinity therefore the reciprocal is 0?
Thank you so much!
Any help would be amazing! :smile:
Original post by MayaVellichor
https://isaacphysics.org/questions/two_lens_microscope?stage=a_level
Can you please help me answer part b?
I got that the focal length for a is 3 cm
And I have tried to use values and got 2.5 as the movement
I am a little confused by lenses does it mean that if it emerges as a parallel beam then the focal length is infinity therefore the reciprocal is 0?
Thank you so much!

Show how you get 2.5.

... does it mean that if it emerges as a parallel beam then the focal length is infinity therefore the reciprocal is 0?


Focal length cannot be infinity.

Original post by MayaVellichor
Any help would be amazing! :smile:

Original post by MayaVellichor
Helloo


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Original post by Eimmanuel
Show how you get 2.5.



Focal length cannot be infinity.




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Sorry won't do it again :smile:
I am just a little confused (I haven't been taught by a teacher cause my school doesn't have a physics teacher so I am trying to teach myself)
Yh 2.5 is definitely wrong then
I think my confusion is that because the beams of light that are emerging are parallel to the lens then they will never meet at a focal point so how do I calculate the focal length if it does meet at a point
Thank you!
Original post by MayaVellichor
Sorry won't do it again :smile:
I am just a little confused (I haven't been taught by a teacher cause my school doesn't have a physics teacher so I am trying to teach myself)
Yh 2.5 is definitely wrong then
I think my confusion is that because the beams of light that are emerging are parallel to the lens then they will never meet at a focal point so how do I calculate the focal length if it does meet at a point
Thank you!


Have you read the explanation of lenses in Isaac Physics.
https://isaacphysics.org/concepts/cp_lenses?stage=all

The focal length of lens B can be found by "seeing Figure 1" in the above link.

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