Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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

Chapter 27 - Optical Instruments - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 974: 99

Answer

$16cm$

Work Step by Step

We know that the object distance for the secondary mirror is given as $d_{os}=x-d_{ip}$ $d_{os}=43cm-50cm=-7cm$ and the image distance for the secondary mirror is given as $d_{is}=x+x^{\prime}$ $d_{is}=43cm+8cm=51cm$ Now $\frac{1}{f_2}=\frac{1}{d_{os}}+\frac{1}{d_{is}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\frac{-2}{R}=\frac{1}{-7cm}+\frac{1}{51cm}$ This simplifies to: $R=16cm$
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