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A collector looks at a stamp through a magnifying glass of focal length 8.0 cm…

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A collector looks at a stamp through a magnifying glass of focal length $8.0\ \text{cm}$ . Find the magnifying power when the image is at the near point, $25\ \text{cm}$ . Find it when the image is at infinity. Find the distance of the stamp from the lens for the first case.

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Simple microscope: $m = 1 + \dfrac{D}{f}$ (image at the near point) and $m = \dfrac{D}{f}$ (image at infinity), with $D = 25\ \text{cm}$ . Compound microscope: $M = m_om_e$ , with $m_o = \dfrac{v_o}{u_o}$ . For the final image at infinity, $M = -\dfrac{L}{f_o}\cdot\dfrac{D}{f_e}$ and the lenses are $f_o + L + f_e$ apart.

The worked solution

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