School Physics Notes: OPTICS: physics of lenses and correction of eye defects

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OPTICS - types of lenses, uses and ray diagrams all explained and the correction of eye defects

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Sub-index for this section on optics - lenses (F = focal length of a convex lens)

1. Reminders of what happens when light rays pass through different shaped prisms

2. The types and properties of lenses, how to construct ray diagrams, measurement of focal length F

3. Convex lens ray diagram for a real image when object is a distance of 2F from the lens

4. Convex lens ray diagram for a real image if object is a distance between F and 2F from lens

5. Convex lens ray diagram for virtual image when object is at a distance between F and lens

6. Convex lens ray diagram for when object is at a distance beyond 2F

7. Ray diagram for a concave lens showing the divergence of parallel rays

8. Ray diagram showing the formation of a virtual image by a concave lens

9. Eye defects  - explaining short sightedness and long sightedness - correction using lenses

See also The eye (gcse biology notes)

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