Huh, I took a test that said differently... weirdjonboyage wrote:Perfectly unpolarized light does lose half of its intensity when going through the first polarizer. According to Wikipedia, "A beam of unpolarized light can be thought of as containing a uniform mixture of linear polarizations at all possible angles. Since the average value of cos^2 is 1/2, the transmission coefficient becomes I/I_o=1/2"An upright image is reduced to 1/4 of the object’s height when the object is placed 26.9 cm from the lens. What is the focal length of the lens
Either way...
the distance of the image is 26.9/4 = 6.725 cm Upright so it's virtual so distance is negative 1/f = 1/29.6 + 1/-6.725 = 1/29.6 - 4/29.6 = -3/29.6 So f = 29.6/-3 = - 9.86666... cm