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Lens and images
Lens and images
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Introduction: Along with mirrors, lens complete the set of simple optical elements. Lens |l;
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have been used for hundreds of years. Galileo constructed the first telescope from a pair of lens E+@Q
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in 1609 and used it to discover, among other things, several of Jupiter’s moons. A lens forms 6:#o0OeBP
images by bending the incoming light as it passes. Image formation can be understood by RW. qw4
treating the incoming light as rays and using a simple geometric arguments. Like much of basic Ayw _LCUD
physics, this approach isn’t completely correct but is a good approximation. Because of the 't5 ufAT
geometric nature of the approximation, one can analyze a lens with geometry. This sort of p|-MwCeH
approach is called ray tracing. In today’s lab, we will form images with lens and analyze the @|anu&Hm
system with ray tracings and with equations.
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