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A student measures the focal length of a convex lens by measuring object distance ‘ ’ and image distance ‘ ’. The graph between and should look like:

  1. A
    A straight line passing through origin
  2. B
    A straight line with negative slope
  3. C
    A hyperbola
  4. D
    A parabola

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According to lens formula: .Rearranging: .This represents a rectangular hyperbola shifted from the origin. In the plane, the relationship between and for a real object and real image is hyperbolic.

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A student measures the focal length of a convex lens by measuring object distance ‘ ’ and image distance ‘ ’. The graph between and should look like:
A
A straight line passing through origin
B
A straight line with negative slope
C
A hyperbola
D
A parabola

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