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Optical instrument contact lenses – problems and solutions

1. Power of a contact lens is -5 Diopters.

(a) The contact lens is converging lens or diverging lens ?
(b) What is the focal length of the contact lens ?
(c) Nearsighted eye or farsighted eye ? If nearsighted eye, what then will be the near point ?
Known :
Lens' power (P) = -5 D
Solution :
(a) Converging lens or diverging lens ?
The minus sign of the lens' power indicates the contact lens is diverging lens.

(b) The focal length ?

P = 1/f
-5 = 1/f
f = 1/-5 = -0.2 m = -20 cm
The focal length of diverging lens is 20 cm.

(c) Nearsighted eye or farsighted eye ?

-1/di = 1/f – 1/do
-1/di = -1/20 – 1/~ = -1/20 – 0
-1/di = -1/20
di = 20 cm
The image distance is 20 cm. 20 cm is far point of the farsighted eye. For a normal eye, the far point is
infinity.

2. Power of a contact lens is 1.5 Diopters.

(a) The contact lens is converging lens or diverging lens ?
(b) What is the focal length of the contact lens ?
(c) Nearsighted eye or farsighted eye ? If farsighted eye, what then will be the far point ?
Known :
lens power (P) = 1.5 Diopters
Solution :

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