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Past exam of the physics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2010 Paper 1 Section A 1 Solution by
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For two equal lenses with a virtual intermediate object, use positive distances for real objects on a lens's incident side and real images on its outgoing side. The first lens gives , hence . At the second lens these rays are already converging toward a point to its right: its object distance is therefore .Thus the final image is real, to the right of lens 1. Its transverse magnification is : it is inverted. The intermediate focus is not a real object placed before lens 2.
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