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TIB: physics program




Is there anyone out there taking a high-school physics class?  I got 
this really niffty program that I wrote to solve for the variables of 
a compound microscope, but now I'm out of high school and this program 
is just sitting here. Though maybe somebody might be interested...

This thing was designed specifically for a single lab that we had to 
do. The idea was to design a compound microscope (2 lenses) that 
provided a specific magnification.  The students were required to find 
the distances of the original object from the objective lens, the 
distance of the image from that lens, the distance of the object for 
the eyepiece and then the location of the final image.  What made it 
rather difficult was the fact that were so many variables, and the 
final image had to be in the same place as the original object, and it 
had to be magnified 35 times.  Anyway, I have since learned that there 
is actually an algebraic solution, but I couldn't find it.  Instead, 
the program goes through a series of iterations and quickly zeros in 
on the answer. 

Well, if you understand what that was all about and you think you 
might have a use for the program, just let me know and I'll send it to 
you.

Jody Snider
jody1@alaska.net


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