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2.4 Exercise 14

Avg difficulty 2.5

A camera with a 100 mm-focal length lens is used to photograph the sun. What is the height of the image of the sun on the film, given the sun is 1.40×106km1.40 \times 10^{6} \text{km} in diameter and is 1.50×108km1.50 \times 10^{8} \text{km} away?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 3, 2.4 Thin Lenses, exercise 14

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