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2.8 Exercise 51

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Let objective and eyepiece of a compound microscope have focal lengths of 2.5 cm and 10 cm, respectively and be separated by 12 cm. A 70-μm\text{70}-\mu\text{m} object is placed 6.0 cm from the objective. How large is the virtual image formed by the objective-eyepiece system?

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