You must click on this link to begin: Start Me.
The object (the arrow), its image and the principal rays can be moved by
clicking & draging the top of the arrow shaped object in
the animation.
- With respect to the starting configuration, find the focal length.
- Now move the object so that its inverted image has the same height. Find the focal length now.
- Move the object so that p = f . Do you see an image? Click on this link to
replace the object with a Point source.
- Restore the object and move it so that p < f . Is there a real or virtual image? Is the image height smaller or larger
than that of the object? What is the sign of q?