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a lens will refract light. a mirror will reflect the light.

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Does a laser use a lens to refract light?

No.


What is designed to refract light in a certain way?

A lens is designed to refract light in a certain way. Lens shape can manipulate how light rays converge or diverge to create focused images. Different types of lenses, such as convex or concave, refract light differently according to their shape.


What type of lens causes light rays to refract?

A convex lens causes light rays to converge, or refract, towards a focal point. This type of lens is thicker at the center than at the edges, causing light rays passing through it to bend inward.


What happend to rays of light when they are refracted by a convex lens?

Now suppose that the rays of light are traveling through the focal point on the way to the lens. These rays of light will refract when they enter the lens and refract when they leave the lens. As the light rays enter into the more dense lens material, they refract towards the normal; and as they exit into the less dense air, they refract away from the normal. These specific rays will exit the lens traveling parallel to the principal axis.


What are items that refract light?

sunglasses, microscope, hand lens/magnify glass


Do hand lens refract light?

Hand lenses do not refract light themselves. They allow you to see objects more clearly by magnifying them. Refraction of light occurs when light passes through different mediums with varying densities or refractive indexes.


Do achromatic lens refract of reflect?

Refract


What lenses refract light outward and are thinner in the middle?

its a concave lens(:


What is a curved piece of glass or other transparent substances that is used to refract light?

A lens


What is a curved piece of glass or other transparent substance that is used to refract light?

A lens


Transparent material with one or two curved surfaces that can refract light?

A lens is a transparent material with at least one curved surface that can refract light. Lenses are commonly used in cameras, eyeglasses, and microscopes to help focus and manipulate light rays.


Is light refracted hen it goes through the lens in a normal eye?

That's how lenses work. If the light didn't refract, there would be no value to having a lens.