Lab+8+Lenses

Excercise 1: Converging and Diverging Lenses

Optical Bench



parallel beam of light

source of light at focal point

Convex Lens (Real Image)

Convex Lens (Virtual Image)

Concave Lens

Drawn Pictures

How Virtual and Real Images are made

How Magnifyig Lenses Work

Objects drawn seen with Concave and Convex Lenses

Excercise 2: The Human Eye

Diverging lens corrects the nearsighted eye

Converging lenses corrects the far sided eye

It is important that glasses don't fall of the nose because the lens will be at the wrong distance from the eye, therefore it messes up the effect of the glasses.

Excercise 3 Lenses and Lasers