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A fresnel lens is a type of magnifying glass itself. NOT the most familiar type like Sherlock Holmes used. You can find fresnel lenses stuck to the back window of vans, in lighthouse lenses. any magnifying lens that has concentric ridges to achieve the magnification effect only using a thin lens.
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Is it possible to make a magnifying glass with colored glass?
microscope
A magnifying glass is also called what?
The answer is both convex and converging
Is the glass magnifying glass the same as the glass of eyeglasses?
Yes, its just that a magnifying glass has a different prescription than eyeglasses.
Can bread be toasted by using magnifying glass?
Yes it can but only by catching sunlight for a long time on the lens then pointing the magnifying glass at the toast I am 10 years old so very clever
When were magnifying glass invented?
The earliest evidence of "a magnifying device, a convex lens forming a magnified image," dates back to 424 BC Aristophanes "lens" is a glass globe filled with water.(Seneca says that it can be used to read lettersno matter how small or dim)[1], Roger Bacon described the properties of magnifying glass in 13th-century England, followed by the development of eyeglasses in 13th-century Italy.
What kind of lens is used in a magnifying glass?
Fresnel lens
Is it possible to make a magnifying glass with colored glass?
microscope
What is the difference between a Fresnel lens and a magnifying lens?
Fresnel lens is much thinner, larger, and flatter, and captures more oblique light from a light source, thus allowing lighthouses to be visible over much greater distances.
What kind of lenses are found in magnifying glass and in the human eye?
The lens found in both the magnifying glass and human eye are called the convex lens. The convex lens can form real images and virtual images. In the magnifying glass the convex lens helps it form of an object that are larger or smaller tjan the object is. In the human eye, it helps focus the light on the back surface, or retina, of tje eye.
What kind of lenses are found in the magnifying glass and in the human eye?
The lens found in both the magnifying glass and human eye are called the convex lens. The convex lens can form real images and virtual images. In the magnifying glass the convex lens helps it form of an object that are larger or smaller tjan the object is. In the human eye, it helps focus the light on the back surface, or retina, of tje eye.
Is a magnifying glass a concave?
A magnifying glass is convex, meaning that the lens curves outward.
What lens is used in magnifying glass?
a glass one
Which lens is used in a magnifying glass?
it is used in a concave lens
What is the name for the glass in a magnifying glass?
a lens..a converging lens to be exact
Who invente the hand lens?
Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass. The magnifying glass is also called the hand lens. It was invented in 1250.
What is an exaple of a convex lens?
A magnifying glass.
A magnifying glass is an example of?
converging lens.
