A point object is located at a distance of 100 m from a screen. A lens of focal length 23 cm mounted on a movable frictionless stand is kept between the source and the screen. The stand is attached to a spring of natural length 50cm and spring constant 800 N/m as shown. Mass of the stand with lens is 2 kg. How much impulse P should be imparted to the stand so that a real image of the object is formed on the screen after a fixed time gap? (Neglect width of the stand).
Let the distance of the lens from the object be when a real image is formed on the screen. Then
solving, we get .
Now, if the lens performs SHM and real image is formed after a fixed time gap then this time gap must be one fourth of the time period.
Phase difference between the two positions of real image must be
. As the two positions are symmetrically located about the origin, phase difference of any of these positions from origin must be
.
To achieve this velocity at the mean position
Required impulse
.