Re: TIB: physics program
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Re: TIB: physics program
Hey, I'm a junior and I'm currently enrolled in Honors Physics II. I don't
think we've done that yet, but you can go ahead and send the program to me.
I might look at it and see if we're going to be doing that.
At 02:29 AM 2/20/98 , you wrote:
-- --
-- --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
-- --
Alex
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