5th Edition

ISBN: 9780134051802

Author: Walker

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 27, Problem 45PCE

A person’s prescription for his new bifocal eyeglasses calls for a refractive power of −0.0625 diopter in the distance-vision part and a power of +1.85 diopters in the close-vision part. Assuming the glasses rest 2.00 cm from his eyes and that the corrected near-point distance is 25.0 cm, determine the near and far points of this person’s uncorrected vision.

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