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1. What are two ways you could increase the magnification (increase the size of the image)
in the situation shown below?

 A. Move the candle to the right, or the focal point to the left.
 B. Move the candle to the right, or the focal point to the right.
 C. Move the candle to the left, or the focal point to the left.
 D. Move the candle to the left, or the focal point to the right.

Correct Answer: A.
Move the candle to the right, or the focal point to the left.

Explanation: For a convex lens, the closer an object is to the focal point, the larger its
image is (and therefore the greater the magnification is). The two ways you could
make the candle be closer to the focal point are to move the candle to the right, or the
focal point to the left.

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2. A large convex lens stands on the floor. The lens is 180 cm tall, so the principal axis is 90
cm above the floor. A student holds a flashlight 120 cm off the ground, shining straight
ahead (parallel to the floor) and passing through the lens. The light is bent and intersects the
principal axis 60 cm behind the lens. Then the student moves the flashlight 30 cm higher
(now 150 cm off the ground), also shining straight ahead through the lens. How far away
from the lens will the light intersect the principal axis now?

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 A. 30 cm
 B. 60 cm
 C. 75 cm
 D. 90 cm

Correct Answer: B.
60 cm

Explanation: All parallel light rays are bent through the focal point of a convex lens.
This means that the rays from the flashlight 150 cm above the floor must go through
the same point on the principal axis as the rays from the flashlight 120 cm above the
floor. The location of the focal point does not change when the position of the object
is moved vertically or horizontally.

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3. An object is located 8 cm away from a convex lens. The image is 24 cm away from the
lens on the other side. What is the focal length of the lens?

 A. 4 cm
 B. 6 cm
 C. 16 cm
 D. 32 cm

Correct Answer: B.
6 cm

Explanation: The relevant equation here is 1

do
+
1

di
=
1

f
, where do is the distance
from the lens to the object, di is the distance from the lens to the image, and f is the
distance from the lens to the focal point. Plugging in values, you have:

8
+
1

24
=
1

24
+
24
1
=
1

24
=
1

6
=
1

6 = f

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4. A student has a convex lens with a focal length of 12 cm. How close should she put an
object to the lens if she wants the image to be inverted and magnified by a factor of 3?

 A. 4 cm
 B. 15 cm
 C. 16 cm
 D. 36 cm

Correct Answer: C.
16 cm

Explanation: Magnification is the ratio of the image height (hi ) to the object height (
hi
ho ), M = . There are three different ratios that this fraction is equal to. Based on
ho
f
the information given, the most helpful ratio is , where f is the lens-focal point
so

distance and so is the object-focal point distance. So you can set up the following
equation:

hi f
=
so

ho

3 =
12

so

3so = 12

so = 4 cm

Since so is the distance from focal point to the object, and the focal point is 12 cm
from the lens, the object should be 4 + 12 = 16 cm from the lens.

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5. When an object is placed within the focal length of a convex lens, the image appears on
the same side as the object itself. This situation is shown below. In this situation, which of
the following statements is true?

 A. si and di are both expressed as negative values, f as a positive value

 B. si and di are both expressed as positive values, f as a negative value

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 C. si , di , and f are all expressed as negative values.

 D. si , di , and f are all expressed as positive values.

Correct Answer: A.
si and di are both expressed as negative values, f as a positive
value

Explanation: With a convex lens, the focal length f is always given as a positive value.
But for convex lenses, the "normal" situation is to have the object beyond the focal
point, and the image on the opposite side of the lens. When the object is between the
focal point and the lens, the image appears on the same side as the actual object. So
that all the lens-related formulas still work, both the distance from the image to the
lens (di ) and the distance from the image to the focal point (si ) are given as negative
values.

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