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Lens and images
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Introduction: Along with mirrors, lens complete the set of simple optical elements. Lens 4mHvgnT!WA
have been used for hundreds of years. Galileo constructed the first telescope from a pair of lens *JaqTI,e
in 1609 and used it to discover, among other things, several of Jupiter’s moons. A lens forms l%`F&8K
images by bending the incoming light as it passes. Image formation can be understood by ~O]]N;>72"
treating the incoming light as rays and using a simple geometric arguments. Like much of basic z9p05NFH
physics, this approach isn’t completely correct but is a good approximation. Because of the ~j#]tEl b
geometric nature of the approximation, one can analyze a lens with geometry. This sort of m1IKVa7-\}
approach is called ray tracing. In today’s lab, we will form images with lens and analyze the "n: %E
system with ray tracings and with equations.
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