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Why wont a piece of ordinary window converge or diverge light rays?
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∙ 13y ago
"Ordinary window" is a sheet of glass or perspex where the two faces are parallel. Light will be refracted at each face, but for light rays incident parallel to eachother, such as sunlight, they will br refracted through equal angles, hence remaining parallel.
Some older glass windows which have undulating surfaces can produce effects such as rainbow patterns on walls and floors due to two non-parallel faces acting like a prism.
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Define power of the lens?
It is the ability of a lens to converge or diverge a ray of light.
Do Light Rays converge or diverge?
Light rays converge as well as diverge. it depends upon the type of lens or mirror you pass it through. A concave lens or a convex mirror diverges the light whereas a convex lens or a concave mirror converges the light rays!
Why are lenses and mirrors used in optical tools?
Because they converge, diverge and reflect light.
What role does the lens play?
The role of a lens is to converge and or diverge light depending on the shape of the lens.
Do negative lenses diverge?
Actually the negative lens just sits there. It causes a parallel beam of light to diverge. It causes a convergent beam to converge less. It causes a divergent beam to diverge more.
What will light rays that pass through a convex lens do?
spread out aplus users
What is optically plane glass plate?
Optically plane glass plate does not converge or diverge light!So it is preferred in obtaining effective interference patterns!! by, D.Akshaya
Why is the power of a lens the reciprocal of its focal length?
Optical power is the degree to which the lens will converge or diverge light. The unit of measurement is the diopter and is directly related to how much a beam of light is bent by the lens.
What do humans use lenss for?
as a piece of glass or other transparent material, used to converge or diverge transmitted light, to form optical images, as for magnification or correcting defects of vision
A convex mirror will make light rays more what?
"A convex mirror is sometimes referred to as a divergingmirror due to the fact that incident light originating from the same point and will reflect off the mirror surface and diverge."So, a convex mirror will reflect and diverge (scatter) the incident light rays (it produces a virtual image), while a convex lens will do the opposite. It will converge light rays passing through it.
How are convex and concave lenses different from each other?
Convex lenses are thicker in the middle than at the edges. They cause light rays to converge. Concave lenses are thicker at the edges than they are in the middle. They cause light rays to spread out, or diverge.
How does the lens change to focus on objects that are close?
Okay when the light waves are coming from far away, they are probably almost parallel to each other so they easily converge on the retina due to the lens. Now for nearer objects the light does not easily converge as they are not parallel and diverge away from each other as they move forward. So to converge them on the retina the lens broadens/thickens. Then the light rays can easily be converged. This phenomenon is called "accommodation".
