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    The document discusses lenses and refraction of light. There are two basic types of lenses - convex and concave. A convex lens converges light rays to a focal point, while a concave lens diverges light rays outward. The focal length of a lens is the distance from the lens center to the focal point. Convex lenses can produce real or virtual images depending on the object distance, while concave lenses only produce virtual images. Telescopes use two lenses - an objective lens produces a real intermediate image, and an eyepiece lens magnifies this image for viewing.

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    The document discusses lenses and refraction of light. There are two basic types of lenses - convex and concave. A convex lens converges light rays to a focal point, while a concave lens diverges light rays outward. The focal length of a lens is the distance from the lens center to the focal point. Convex lenses can produce real or virtual images depending on the object distance, while concave lenses only produce virtual images. Telescopes use two lenses - an objective lens produces a real intermediate image, and an eyepiece lens magnifies this image for viewing.

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    The document discusses lenses and refraction of light. There are two basic types of lenses - convex and concave. A convex lens converges light rays to a focal point, while a concave lens diverges light rays outward. The focal length of a lens is the distance from the lens center to the focal point. Convex lenses can produce real or virtual images depending on the object distance, while concave lenses only produce virtual images. Telescopes use two lenses - an objective lens produces a real intermediate image, and an eyepiece lens magnifies this image for viewing.

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    Lenses – An application of refraction
    • There are 2 basic types of lenses

    A converging lens (Convex) A diverging lens (concave) takes


    takes light rays and bring light rays and spreads them
    them to a point. outward.
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    Movement of Light through Lenses
    CONVEX LENS
    • In a convex lens, an incoming ray parallel to the
    principal axis is refracted through the principal
    focus (F).

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    Concave Lens
    • In a concave lens, an incoming ray parallel to
    the principal axis is refracted so that it
    appears to come from the principal focus (F).

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    Movement of Light through a Lens
    • The distance from the centre line (plane) of the lens to
    the principal focus is called the focal length of the
    lens.

    • A ray passing through the centre of either type of lens


    is unaffected.
    • As with all images, rays of light that come from a part
    of the object come together again at that same part of
    the image.
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    Focal Length
    • The greater the curvature of a lens, the more
    it bends light and hence the shorter the focal
    length.

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    Image type and Location
    • Convex lenses produce two different types of
    images, depending on where the object is
    located.
    • If the object is at a distance greater than the
    focal length of the lens, a real image is
    formed.
    • A real image can be projected onto a screen

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    Convex Lenses
    • If the object is at a distance less than the focal
    length of the lens, a virtual image is formed.
    • This image can’t be projected onto a screen.

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    Concave Lenses
    • Concave lenses produce only virtual images.

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    Finding the focal length
    • Rays coming into a lens from a distant object are
    almost parallel and form an image very close to
    the focus.
    • We can then measure the distance from lens to
    image to determine the focal length of the lens.

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    Images in a Convex and Concave Lens Prac
    • AIM: To investigate the image formed by different convex
    lens and concave lens
    • Complete Convex prac – using 2 different convex lenses

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    Questions
    • CONVEX –
    1) What happened as the object was brought closer to the lens?
    2) When does;
    • a a real image (on a screen) is obtained
    • b a virtual image (one that cannot be ‘caught’ on a
    • screen) is obtained
    • c no image is obtained

    • CONCAVE -
    1) Assess whether it is possible to form a real image (one that may
    be ‘caught’ on a screen) using a concave lens.
    2) Explain how the image changes as the object-to-lens distance is
    varied.

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    Optical instruments
    • Telescopes
    • Telescopes make small, far objects appear larger.
    • Two lenses are used.
    • The objective lens produces a real, inverted image just inside the
    focus of a second lens, called the eyepiece lens. The image
    produced by the first lens now acts as the object for the second
    lens. Because the first image is inside the focus of the second lens,
    the second image (the one seen by the telescope user) is virtual
    and enlarged compared to the first one
    • The thinner the first lens (objective lens), the larger the first
    image. But thin lenses have longer focal lengths—this is why
    telescopes are long instruments.
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