In a compound microscope, the lens placed near the object has which property compared with the eye-piece lens?

1. A compound microscope uses two convex lenses, an objective and an eye-piece. 2. The objective sits near the object and has the shorter focal length. 3. The eye-piece, near the eye, has the larger focal length and larger aperture. 4. So the objective is the shorter-focal-length lens; the longer one is the eye-piece, ruling out that option. _Source: Samacheer Kalvi (TN SCERT) Class 10 Science, Unit 2 Optics "Microscope", p.33_