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Images are formed when rays of light meet. If rays are refracted by different amounts as they pass through different parts of the lens, they may be brought to a focus - or meet and pass through one point. This is where the image is formed.
Virtual image
An image is a copy of an object fromed by reflected (or refracted) rays of light.
A real image in produced by the actual intersection of the reflected rays . Whereas a virtual image is formed when the reflected rays meet after they are produced backwards.
2 is the minimum number of light rays required to locate the image (of a point object) formed by a lens. First find the path of rays after refraction and then their point of intersection gives the location of the image.
When light rays come together, they converge.
An image is called real if the light rays coming from a point(point on object) meet at a point after reflection or refraction. An image is virtual if the light rays do not actually meet after reflection or refraction. These rays appear to come from a point which is the point where we say virtual image is formed.
A virtual image is a copy of an object formed at the location from which the light rays appear to come. Whereas a real image is a copy of an object formed at the point where the light rays actually meet.
Images are formed when rays of light meet. If rays are refracted by different amounts as they pass through different parts of the lens, they may be brought to a focus - or meet and pass through one point. This is where the image is formed.
Virtual image
An image is a copy of an object fromed by reflected (or refracted) rays of light.
A real image in produced by the actual intersection of the reflected rays . Whereas a virtual image is formed when the reflected rays meet after they are produced backwards.
2 is the minimum number of light rays required to locate the image (of a point object) formed by a lens. First find the path of rays after refraction and then their point of intersection gives the location of the image.
Virtual Image
Because the light rays never meet, a concave lens can produce only a virtual image.
A lens forms an image when all the rays of light meet in the focal point.
A virtual image is formed when the reflected rays meet after they are produced backwards. Whereas a real image in produced by the actual intersection of the reflected rays.