Magnification

Edexcel AS-level PhysicsOpticsLesson 14 of 21

Magnification tells you how many times bigger (or smaller) the image is than the object:

m = image height / object height = v / u

where v is the image distance and u is the object distance from the lens. Magnification is a ratio of two lengths, so it has no units.

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