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Re: Virtual and Real Images



At 12:17 -0500 3/19/02, Robert Cohen wrote:

The image of the floating coin is a real image, is it not?

I have to admit I didn't go back and check on the arrangement of the
floating coin before I made those, possibly rash statements, but I
always was under the impression that the image was virtual. I am
prepared to be wrong, however, and I will go look it up and see what
it is.

What it all adds up to, I think, is that the idea of real and virtual
images is not just a simple rule to memorize. If the students don't
get even in the simplest cases, it probably means that there is a
serious misconception about how a lens works, and maybe Tina should
go back to the fundamentals of just what a lens is and does.

Hugh
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