One uses a divergent lens to correct for shortsightedness.
For shortsightedness, a concave lens is commonly used to help focus light properly onto the retina and improve distance vision. The lens helps to diverge the light entering the eye in order to compensate for the excess focusing power of a myopic eye.
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The ocular lens used for nearsightedness is known as a diverging lens. It is also known as a concave lens.
bioconvex lens
I do not know
? to protect the lens i assume.
A convex lens.
Fresnel lens
A telescopic lens.
The type of lense is a convex lense
The thick lens equation is used in optics to calculate the focal length of a lens that is not thin, taking into account the thickness of the lens itself.
Contact lenses power of -4.25 D means that the person has a medium myopia (shortsightedness) around -5.25 D in reality. It's nothing to really worry about. The myopia degree alone doesn't really say much about how good is someones vision. There are other factors as for example if the lens is working as it should, if there is no damage on optical nerve, some genetic malfunctions of the eye etc. I personally have high myopia (-10.5 D, -9.5 D on contact lenses) but because otherwise my eyes are working as they should, with correction I have 100 percent vision and so my shortsightedness has no real influence on my life.