Which of The Following Can Be Projected Onto A Viewing Screen? A
Which of The Following Can Be Projected Onto A Viewing Screen? A
Which of The Following Can Be Projected Onto A Viewing Screen? A
Lenses
A. Lenses are commonly used to form images by refraction
B. Light passing through a lens experiences refraction at two surfaces
C. The image formed by a refracting surface serves as the object for the second surface
D. Lenses are used in optical instruments
a. Cameras
b. Telescopes
c. Microscopes
- WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CAN BE PROJECTED ONTO A VIEWING SCREEN? A
REAL IMAGE
2. Types of Lenses
A. Two Common Types
a. Converging (Convex) Lens (for those who cant see near)
i.
Thicker at the center than edges
ii.
Converges light
b. Diverging (Concave) Lens (for those who cant see far)
i.
Thinner at the center than the edges
ii.
Diverges light
B. Thin Lens Equation the relationship among the focal length, the object distance and
the image distance is the same as for a mirror
a. P = Object Position
b. Q = Image Position
c. F = Focal Lens
C. Focal Length of a Converging Lens
a. The parallel rays pass through the lens and converge at the focal point
b. The parallel rays can come from the left or right of the lens
3. Refracting Telescope
A. The two lenses are arranged so that the objective forms a real, inverted image of a
distant object
B. The image is near the focal point of the eyepiece
4. Lens Aberrations
A. Assumptions have been
a. Rays make small angles with the principal axis
b. The lenses are thin
B. The rays from a point object do not focus at a single point
a. The result is a blurred image
C. The departures of actual images from the ideal predicted by our model are called
aberrations
D. Spherical Aberration -this results from the focal points of light rays far from the
principal axis being different from the focal points of rays passing near the axis
E. Chromatic Aberration- different wavelengths of light refracted by a lens focus at
different points
F. d
SUMMARY:
1. A wave front is a surface along which the wave phase is constant. Rays, perpendicular to
the wave fronts, indicate the direction of propagation
2. Snells Law
3. Light entering a medium of higher n is bent towards the normal; light entering a medium
of lower n is bent away from the normal
4. When light enters a medium of lower n, there is a critical angle beyond whch the light
will be totally reflected