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Chapter 35, Problem 8P
Why is the following situation impossible? At a blind corner in an outdoor shopping mall, a convex mirror is mounted so pedestrians can see around the corner before arriving there and bumping into someone traveling in the perpendicular direction. The installers of the mirror failed to take into account the position of the Sun, and the mirror focuses the Sun’s rays on a nearby bush and sets it on fire.
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PHYSICS:F/SCI.+ENGRS-W/WEBASSIGN
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Ch. 35 - Two plane mirrors stand facing each other, 3.00 m...Ch. 35 - An object is placed 50.0 cm from a concave...Ch. 35 - An object is placed 20.0 cm from a concave...Ch. 35 - An object of height 2.00 cm is placed 30.0 cm from...Ch. 35 - Why is the following situation impossible? At a...Ch. 35 - A large hall in a museum has a niche in one wall....Ch. 35 - A concave spherical mirror has a radius of...Ch. 35 - An object 10.0 cm tall is placed at the zero mark...Ch. 35 - You are training to become an opticians assistant....Ch. 35 - A certain Christmas tree ornament is a silver...Ch. 35 - Review. A ball is dropped at t = 0 from rest 3.00...Ch. 35 - You unconsciously estimate the distance to an...Ch. 35 - A convex spherical mirror has a focal length of...Ch. 35 - One end of a long glass rod (n = 1.50) is formed...Ch. 35 - Prob. 18PCh. 35 - Prob. 19PCh. 35 - Figure P35.20 (page 958) shows a curved surface...Ch. 35 - To dress up your dorm room, you have purchased a...Ch. 35 - You are working for a solar energy company. Your...Ch. 35 - An object located 32.0 cm in front of a lens forms...Ch. 35 - An objects distance from a converging lens is 5.00...Ch. 35 - A contact lens is made of plastic with an index of...Ch. 35 - A converging lens has a focal length of 10.0 cm....Ch. 35 - A converging lens has a focal length of 10.0 cm....Ch. 35 - Suppose an object has thickness dp so that it...Ch. 35 - An object is placed 10.0 cm from a diverging lens...Ch. 35 - In Figure P35.30, a thin converging lens of focal...Ch. 35 - You are working for an electronics company that...Ch. 35 - Prob. 32PCh. 35 - Two rays traveling parallel to the principal axis...Ch. 35 - Josh cannot see objects clearly beyond 25.0 cm...Ch. 35 - Figure 35.34 diagrams a cross section of a camera....Ch. 35 - The refracting telescope at the Yerkes Observatory...Ch. 35 - The distance between the eyepiece and the...Ch. 35 - What are (a) the maximum angular magnification...Ch. 35 - A patient has a near point of 45.0 cm and far...Ch. 35 - The intensity I of the light reaching the CCD in a...Ch. 35 - A certain childs near point is 10.0 cm; her far...Ch. 35 - Astronomers often take photographs with the...Ch. 35 - A simple model of the human eye ignores its lens...Ch. 35 - A real object is located at the zero end of a...Ch. 35 - The distance between an object and its upright...Ch. 35 - Prob. 46APCh. 35 - Andy decides to use an old pair of eyeglasses to...Ch. 35 - Two converging lenses having focal lengths of f1 =...Ch. 35 - Two lenses made of kinds of glass having different...Ch. 35 - Prob. 50APCh. 35 - An object is placed 12.0 cm to the left of a...Ch. 35 - An object is placed a distance p to the left of a...Ch. 35 - In a darkened room, a burning candle is placed...Ch. 35 - In many applications, it is necessary to expand or...Ch. 35 - Why is the following situation impossible?...Ch. 35 - A zoom lens system is a combination of lenses that...Ch. 35 - Consider the lensmirror arrangement shown in...Ch. 35 - A floating strawberry illusion is achieved with...
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