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Bettie Schuster
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∙ 17y agoA lens actually bends light. Imagine this: If light were a solid object traveling in a beam, it would naturally travel in a straight line, and keep all of its elements (colors/wavelengths) together. Now, imaging that this solid beam of light were to drag across something during its travel... one side would be slowing down and the other side would be continuing at the original speed. If light were solid, then the whole thing would slow down and we (humans) would not notice anything. However, light is not solid. When it travels through an object (like glass, or water) then light actually slows down. If only part of a light beam is traveling through the glass while the other part is traveling through air, then some of the light will slow down and the rest will keep going at the original speed, which causes the light to bend. (It's just like grabbing a straw between your fingers and bringing one finger up and the other one down, the straw will bend because one side is moving at a different rate than the other side). Since a lens is curved, when a light beam hits it head on, one "side" of the beam hits the surface first and starts to slow down. The beam continues to bend until the entire beam is traveling through the lens, but now the light has been spread out from a "straight line" into a "wedge" shape. This is what allows us to see all the colors. When white light spreads out, the colors separate from one another (we often call the lenses that do this Prisms). In a magnifying glass, the lens is designed to bend both sides of the light beam at the same time, either making it smaller or larger than it had originally been. By doing this, a person can bounce light off of something very small, pass it through a specially shaped lens, and bend the sides of the light beam outwards, making the beam bigger. This will make the object that the light was bouncing off of seem much larger.
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∙ 15y agolenses bend light by having the light pass through the glass(or whatever material) of the lense in which the light will slow down. As the light enters the glass the very first part of the ray will slow down alowing other parts to catch up. This makes the light bend towards the normal (perpendicular to side of glass). As the light leaves the glass the oposite occurs. The light that leaves the glass goes faster leaving other parts behind and bending it away form the normal. How much the light bends depends on the shape of the lense the material of the lense and the angle that the light comes in at.
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∙ 9y agoIf the lens is convex type than light rays would be converged and if it is a concave type then rays would be diverged. Hence already converging rays would be further converged by a convex lens. And already diverging rays would be made less diverged by the same convex lens.
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∙ 12y agolenses don't affect light, cause they are ugly
and 99% of the people that have em suicide for being too ugly
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∙ 13y agoThere are two types of lenses, convex and concave. A convex lense will focus incoming light while a concave lense will disperse it.
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∙ 7y agoA convex lens is a converging lens, light rays converge at one point known as the focus
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What is the magnifying lenses in a light microscope?
objective and eyepice lenses.
Can the environment affect eye color?
yes contact lenses and being in the sun
Modern microscope that use lenses to bend?
Modern microscope that use lenses to bend light or images. The magnification occurs by precise lens grinding that bends light across the surface of the lens.
What are theTwo magnifying lenses found in a light microscope?
The ocular and objective
Which microscope uses lenses and objectives to magnify?
compound light microscope
What does non-corrective lenses Mean?
Non-corrective lenses do not affect the direction of the rays of light. What they do affect is the composition of the light. Non-corrective lenses are filters blocking out some wavelengths of light in order to do not reach the human eye.
How do mirrors and lenses affect light?
by having a same common demominator
How do mirrors and lenses affect light rays?
by having a same common demominator
What is the main difference between how convex and concave lenses affect light?
Concave lenses are thicker at the edges then at the middle. A Convex lens is a lens that is thicker in the center than at its edges.
How are convex lenses and concave lenses the same?
They are not the same. Convex lens bulge outward, and concave lenses go in ward. Convex lenses focus light, and concave lenses spread light out.
How do mirrors and lenses compare in their interaction with light?
Mirrors reflect light; lenses do not. APEX 0-0
What is the magnifying lenses in a light microscope?
objective and eyepice lenses.
What do the lenses on a microscope do to the light as it passes through them - and how does this affect the way an object appears when the light reaches your eye?
The lenses in a microscope diffract (bend) the light as it passes through them. The effect is that an object appears clear and large (is focused and magnified) when the light reaches your eye. Also, microscope designs usually ensure that the object appears right-side-up.
What is a tool that gathers light with mirrors and lenses called?
Cameras and reflecting telescopes gather light using mirrors and lenses.
How do the lenses of a light microscope make an object look larger?
The light makes it easier to see so i c make it larger then just the one lenses does to it.The one lenses makes it seem bigger then to because of the light hitting it right through the lenses.But my only question is how does it do that?HOW DOES THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE MAKE THIS LOOK LARGER?
How do lenses work?
by refracting light
Why are the lenses of the eyes very important to human beings?
The lenses focus light on the retina of the eye. Without the lenses focusing the light, we would not be able to see any images clearly.
