Joe is hiking through the woods when he decides to stop and take in the view. He is particularly interested in three objects: a squirrel sitting on a rock next to him, a tree a few meters away, and a distant mountain. As Joe is taking in the view, he thinks back to what he learned in his physics class about how the human eye works.
Light enters the eye at the curved front surface of the cornea, passes through the lens, and then strikes the retina and fovea on the back of the eye. The cornea and

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Joe is hiking through the woods when he decides to stop and take in the view. He is particularly interested in three objects: a squirrel sitting on a rock next to him, a tree a few meters away, and a distant mountain. As Joe is taking in the view, he thinks back to what he learned in his physics class about how the human eye works.
Light enters the eye at the curved front surface of the cornea, passes through the lens, and then strikes the retina and fovea on the back of the eye. The cornea and lens together form a compond lens system. The large difference between the index of refraction of air and that of the aqueous humor behind the cornea is responsible for most of the bending of the light rays that enter the eye, but it is the lens that allows our eyes to focus. The ciliary muscles surrounding the lens can be expanded and contracted to change the curvature of the lens, which in turn changes the effective focal length of the cornea-lens system. This in turn changes the location of the image of any object in one's field of view. Images formed on the fovea appear in focus. Images formed between the lens and the fovea appear blurry, as do images formed behind the fovea. Therefore, to focus on some object, you adjust your ciliary muscles until the image of that object is located on the fovea.
A) Joe first focuses his attention (and his eyes) on the tree. The focal length of the cornea-lens system in his eye must be __________ the distance between the front and back of his eye.
a. greater than
b. less than
c. equal to 
B) Joe's eyes are focused on the tree, so the squirrel and the mountain appear out of focus. This is because the image of the squirrel is formed ______ and the image of the mountain is formed _____.
a. between the lens and fovea / between the lens and fovea
b. between the lens and fovea / behind the fovea
c. behind the fovea / between the lens and fovea
d. behind the fovea / behind the fovea
C) Joe now shifts his focus from the tree to the squirrel. To do this, the ciliary muscles in his eyes must have _____ the curvature of the lens, resulting in a(n) _______ focal length for the cornea-lens system. Note that curvature is different from radius of curvature.
a. increased / increased
b. increased / decreased
c. decreased / increased
d. decreased / decreased

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Answer:A) correct answer is C,   B)   correct answer is b  and C) The correct answer is bExplanation:In the exercises of geometric optics, the equation of the constructor tells us the location of the image.
         1 / f = 1 / p + 1 / q
where f is the focal length of the cornea-crystalline system, p and q are the distances to the object and the image.

In this case, the distance to the image on the retina is constant, about 3 cm. Therefore depending on the distance to the object) p = the focal length must change
         1 / q = 1 / f 1 / p

let's apply this expression to our case

A) indicates that the tree is at a medium distance
so that the image is formed on the retina THE SAME AS
correct answer is CB) The squirrel is at a smaller distance (p ') than the tree (p), therefore if we substitute in the equation above we find that q must decrease. Consequently the image is in front of the retina
The mountain is very far, suppose in infinity, so the image is BEHIND THE RETINA
therefore the correct answer is b
C) The squirrel is very close so the curvature of the lens INCREASES, resulting in a DECREASE in the focal length
The correct answer is b

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