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Magnification

Magnification is calculated the same way for both mirrors and lenses:

 

 where h denotes the image and object heights, and s denotes the image and object distances. Negative magnifications correspond to inverted images and positive magnifications correspond to upright images.

Single optics always give inverted real images and upright virtual images.


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