An object 1.50 cm high is held 3.00 cm from a persons cornea, and its reflected image

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An object 1.50 cm high is held 3.00 cm from a person’s cornea, and its reflected image is measured to be 0.167 cm high. 

(a) What is the magnification? 

(b) Where is the image? 

(c) Find the radius of curvature of the convex mirror formed by the cornea. (Note that this technique is used by optometrists to measure the curvature of the cornea for contact lens fitting. The instrument used is called a keratometer, or curve measurer.)

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