Moving an object and screen to find the focal length of a lens

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Homework Statement


A convex lens is used to project the image of an object on a screen with a magnification m1 . Leaving the lens fixed, the object is moved along the optical axis
by a distance Δs and the screen is moved until the image is located again. If the new
value of the magnification is m2 , Show that the focal lenghth \frac{Δs}{\frac{1}{m_{2}}-\frac{1}{m_{2}}}


Homework Equations


s'/s=m
1/s+1/s'=1/f
Where s is the position of the object and s' is that of the image/screen

The Attempt at a Solution


I used s1=s2+Δs and attempted to rearrange but got nowhere really.. any suggestions?
 
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nofootcanman said:
I used s1=s2+Δs and attempted to rearrange but got nowhere really.. any suggestions?
Please show your work then, so we can see what went wrong.
 
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