Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 26 - Geometrical Optics - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 940: 12

Answer

$1.15m$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required height as follows: $h=\frac{\frac{x_t}{x_p}h_p+h_t}{1+\frac{x_t}{x_p}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $h=\frac{(\frac{1.5m}{3.2m})(1.9m)+0.80m}{1+\frac{1.5m}{3.2m}}$ $h=1.15m$
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