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Question
An object is placed well outside the principal focus of a convex lens. Draw a ray diagram to show how the image is formed, and say whether the image is real or virtual.
Solution
When an object is placed well outside the principal focus of a convex lens, the image formed is real and inverted as shown in the figure.
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