What kind of lens is behind the orange curtain?

Horizontal position of the object
-200 cm -25 cm
-80
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Inspired by a 2002 article in The Physics Teacher by Melissa Dancy, Wolfgang Christian, and Mario Belloni.

Test your familiarity with lenses. You can find the focal length of a converging or diverging lens by calculating it, but see if you can get to the point where you can find it without doing a calculation.

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Posted 6-15-2020. Authored by Andrew Duffy.

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