Refraction and the Lens-users Eq.

Are there any limits to the magnifying power

we can get from a magnifying glass?

• Recall: 1/s + 1/s’ = 1/f and M = -s’/s
  where s’ = -25 cm.
• For biggest M, need smallest s which means smallest f.

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