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    Optical instruments process light waves to enhance images for viewing or analyze light properties. Common examples include magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, and cameras. The simple magnifier increases the apparent size of an object using a single converging lens. The microscope is composed of an objective lens that forms a real image and an eyepiece lens that magnifies the image for viewing. Telescopes use lenses or mirrors to observe distant celestial objects. Refractive telescopes contain objective and eyepiece lenses while reflective telescopes use a large concave mirror and smaller plane mirror to redirect light into an eyepiece tube. Binoculars contain prisms to invert images for upright viewing of terrestrial scenes.

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    Optical instruments process light waves to enhance images for viewing or analyze light properties. Common examples include magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, and cameras. The simple magnifier increases the apparent size of an object using a single converging lens. The microscope is composed of an objective lens that forms a real image and an eyepiece lens that magnifies the image for viewing. Telescopes use lenses or mirrors to observe distant celestial objects. Refractive telescopes contain objective and eyepiece lenses while reflective telescopes use a large concave mirror and smaller plane mirror to redirect light into an eyepiece tube. Binoculars contain prisms to invert images for upright viewing of terrestrial scenes.

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    Optical instruments process light waves to enhance images for viewing or analyze light properties. Common examples include magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, and cameras. The simple magnifier increases the apparent size of an object using a single converging lens. The microscope is composed of an objective lens that forms a real image and an eyepiece lens that magnifies the image for viewing. Telescopes use lenses or mirrors to observe distant celestial objects. Refractive telescopes contain objective and eyepiece lenses while reflective telescopes use a large concave mirror and smaller plane mirror to redirect light into an eyepiece tube. Binoculars contain prisms to invert images for upright viewing of terrestrial scenes.

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    Optical instruments process light waves to enhance images for viewing or analyze light properties. Common examples include magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, and cameras. The simple magnifier increases the apparent size of an object using a single converging lens. The microscope is composed of an objective lens that forms a real image and an eyepiece lens that magnifies the image for viewing. Telescopes use lenses or mirrors to observe distant celestial objects. Refractive telescopes contain objective and eyepiece lenses while reflective telescopes use a large concave mirror and smaller plane mirror to redirect light into an eyepiece tube. Binoculars contain prisms to invert images for upright viewing of terrestrial scenes.

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    Optical

    instruments
    What are optical instruments
    An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves, either
    to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their
    characteristic properties. Common examples include periscopes,
    microscopes, telescopes, and cameras.
    The simple magnifier

    The simple magnifier is one of the most basic of all optical


    instruments. It consists of a converging lens. It is used to
    increase the apparent size of an object.
    The microscope

    It is composed of 2 lenses: the


    objective lens and the eyepiece
    lens. Both have short focal
    lengths.
    The objective lens forms a real
    inverted image which is near the
    focal length of the eyepiece.
    The eyepiece gives us a
    magnified virtual image of the
    object.
    The telescope

    The observation of stars and different kind of


    celestial bodies is achieved only by the use of
    the telescope.
    There are two types of microscopes 1.
    Refractive 2. Reflective telescope.
    The refractive telescope

    The refractive telescope contains two converging lenses called


    the objective in the eyepiece. The focal length of the objective
    is very long and the eyepiece is employed as a simple
    magnifier.
    The first image of the object located at infinity is formed by
    the objective at its focal point. It is also inverted real near the
    focal point of the eyepiece.
    The first image serves as a real object for the eyepiece which
    acts as a magnifier and forms of virtual inverted image.
    The reflective telescope

    Reflective telescope consist of large barrel with a concave


    mirror at the bottom, a plane mirror place near the focal point
    of a concave mirror, and the tube mounted in the middle of the
    barrel with an eyepiece lens in it.
    The concave mirror is the objective of the telescope. Rays
    coming from stars are incident on the concave mirror and
    reflected towards the focal point of a concave mirror.
    Since the plane mirror is positioned before the focal point the
    rays are reflected by the plane mirror towards the eyepiece
    lens in the tube. After passing through the eyepiece lens, the
    rays reach the eye.
    The binoculars

    An inverted image is not a disadvantage for astronomical


    observations. However, images of objects observed by
    telescope or binoculars for viewing scenes on earth might be
    upright. This inversion is accomplished by means of a pair of
    45° 90° 45° prisms, which make the rays undergo for total
    internal reflection from the inclined faces of the prisms.
    Moreover, this system makes the instrument shorter by
    foldings optical path back along itself.
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