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Das Merkzeichen Bl erhalten vollständig erblindete Personen und schwerbehinderte Menschen, bei denen die Sehschärfe auf keinem Auge und auch nicht bei beidäugiger Prüfung mehr als 1/50 der normalen Sehschärfe beträgt. Ebenso erhalten sehbehinderte Menschen das Merkzeichen Bl, bei denen eine dieser Sehschärfe gleichzuachtende, nicht nur vorübergehende Sehstörung von einem solchen Schweregrad vorliegt. Dies ist u. a. der Fall, wenn das Gesichtsfeld erheblich eingeschränkt ist. Die Beurteilung der gesundheitlichen Voraussetzungen für die Zuerkennung des Merkzeichens Bl erfolgen nach den Kriterien in Teil A Nummer 3 der Versorgungsmedizinischen Grundsätze (VMG).

you can easily verify that the focal length is in the positive x direction for a convex lens while it is along the negative x direction for a concave lens. So f is positive for a convex lens and negative for a concave lens. The reason is the sign altering of v.

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This convention means $u$ is normally negative because the object is to the left of the lens, while $v$ is normally positive because a (real) image is to the right of the lens. The lens equation becomes:

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Rechtsprechung zur strittigen Anerkennung des Merkzeichens Bl für blind im Sinne des § 72 Absatz 5 SGB XII oder entsprechender Vorschriften.

Startseite Rechtsprechung Feststellungsverfahren Merkzeichen (Nachteilsausgleiche) Aktuelle Seite: Merkzeichen Bl (Blindheit)

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Positivelensvsnegative lens

If you're dealing with anything complicated I recommend keeping strictly to the Cartesian sign convention. I've linked an article that seems to be a good summary of this, but Googling will find you lots more articles to look at. Basically:

Just think in terms of their properties. A concave lens diverges the rays incident on it. So the image will be formed behind the lens. So the image distance becomes negative. (The image distance is measured from the principal point to the point at which the image is formed.)

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See according to the New Cartesian Sign convention U i.e., the object distance is always in the left hand side of the lens or mirror i.e., to -X side. That is why U is always taken as negative. For focal length, f in lens is always taken as negative for concave and positive for convex. In case of mirror the f is taken as negative if it is in -X side i.e., is in Concave mirror and taken as positive if it is in +X side i.e., is in Convex mirror. And for image distance, V in lens it is taken as positive in Convex lens since image is formed on +X side. It is taken as negative in Concave lens since image is formed in -X side of the Cartesian. In Concave mirror V is taken as positive and negative for convex mirror.

Basically everything to the left and down is negative, everything to the right and up is positive. Curvatures are measured from the vertex to the center of the curvature.

I have a great deal of sympathy with your position. As taught in schools the sign convention is somewhat vague and that gets confusing with complicated setups.

Is okay but when solving problem sums sometimes $v$ becomes negative sometimes $u$ and many times $f$. Sometimes both $v$ and $f$ becomes negative. I just can't mug up why this is happening.

Now the convex lens converges the incident rays. Hence the rays converge to a single point infront of the lens. So the image distance is positive here.