When an object is placed 55.0cm from a certain converging lens, it forms a real image. When the object is moved to 45.0cm from the lens, the image moves 6.00 cm farther from the lens.

Find the focal length of this lens?

Please someone help me out I tried so many times i keep getting wrong answer.
PHYSICS PLEASE HELP ASAP - bobpursley, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 4:45pm
1/f=1/di+1/do

f=dido/(di+do)

but f before the move is f after the move, so

(di+6)(55+45)/(di+55+51)=di55/(di+55)

solve for di. Looks like fun.

then, after you get di, go for f from the lens equation
PHYSICS PLEASE HELP ASAP - Laila, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:48pm
I found this equation 5380di^2+600di+33000=0 and when i solve i got an imaginary number I had a hard time solving it so could you please help me out I actually redid it and got 3.15 for di i don't know if that's right or not an how to go from there cuz i keep gettind it wrong
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To find the focal length of the lens, we can use the lens formula:

1/f = 1/do + 1/di

Where:
f = focal length
do = object distance
di = image distance

We are given that when the object is placed 55.0 cm from the lens, it forms a real image. Let's denote this as do1 and di1. Similarly, when the object is moved to 45.0 cm from the lens, the image moves 6.00 cm farther from the lens. Let's denote this as do2 and di2.

We can set up the following equations:

1/f = 1/do1 + 1/di1
1/f = 1/do2 + 1/di2

We know that f remains the same before and after the move, so we can set these two equations equal to each other:

1/do1 + 1/di1 = 1/do2 + 1/di2

Now, let's substitute the given values:
do1 = 55.0 cm
do2 = 45.0 cm
di2 = di1 + 6.00 cm

Plugging these values into the equation:

1/55.0 + 1/di1 = 1/45.0 + 1/(di1 + 6.00)

Now, let's solve for di1.

To simplify the equation, we can take the reciprocals of both sides:

55.0 + di1 = 45.0 + (di1 + 6.00)

Next, we simplify and solve for di1:

55.0 + di1 = 45.0 + di1 + 6.00
10.0 = 6.00
10.0 - 6.00 = 0
4.00 = 0

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