If a piece of glass or other transparent
material takes on the appropriate shape, it is possible that parallel
incident rays would either converge to a point or appear to be diverging
from a point. A piece of glass that has such a shape is referred to as a
lens.

A lens
is merely a carefully ground or molded piece of transparent material
that refracts light rays in such as way as to form an image. Lenses can
be thought of as a series of tiny refracting prisms, each of which
refracts light to produce their own image. When these prisms act
together, they produce a bright image focused at a point.

A double convex lens
is symmetrical across both its horizontal and vertical axis. Each of
the lens' two faces can be thought of as originally being part of a
sphere. The fact that a double convex lens is thicker across its middle
is an indicator that it will converge rays of light that travel parallel
to its principal axis. A double convex lens is a converging lens. A double concave lens
is also symmetrical across both its horizontal and vertical axis. The
two faces of a double concave lens can be thought of as originally being
part of a sphere. The fact that a double concave lens is thinner across
its middle is an indicator that it will diverge rays of light that
travel parallel to its principal axis. A double concave lens is a
diverging lens. These two types of lenses - a double convex and a double
concave lens will be the only types of lenses that will be discussed in
this site later.

9:34:00 PM
Dr. Kazi Abdus Sobur
Physics
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