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Refraction causes light rays to bend as they pass from one medium to another, such as air to glass in a lens. This bending of light rays helps focus the rays to form an image at the back of the lens. The shape of the lens determines how much the light rays bend and where the image will be formed.

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Which property of light wave makes the image seen through lenses?

The property of light waves that allows an image to be seen through lenses is the refraction of light. When light waves pass through a lens, they are bent or refracted, causing the rays to converge or diverge depending on the shape of the lens, resulting in the formation of an image.


What makes an object look wavy under water?

When light passes through different layers of water with varying densities, called refraction, the object's image may appear distorted or wavy. This distortion occurs due to the bending of light as it travels from one medium (air) to another (water), creating an optical illusion of movement in the image. This effect is commonly seen in shallow water where light is easily refracted.


What kind of image is not formed by real light rays?

A virtual image is not formed by real light rays. Instead, it appears to be located at a position where the light rays do not actually converge. This type of image is commonly seen in mirrors and lenses.


What does you mean by erect image?

An erect image refers to an optical image that is oriented the same way as the object it is created from. This type of image is seen in mirrors, lenses, and other optical systems where the image appears right-side up in relation to the object being viewed.


What is internal refraction?

internal refraction is when the ray of light is refracted, for example in a glass or plastic semicircle, and it's refracted inside the semicircle, notoutside.

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Which property of light wave makes the image seen through lenses?

The property of light waves that allows an image to be seen through lenses is the refraction of light. When light waves pass through a lens, they are bent or refracted, causing the rays to converge or diverge depending on the shape of the lens, resulting in the formation of an image.


What does the microscope use to form images?

Microscopes use lenses to focus light onto the specimen being observed. This magnifies the image, allowing for details to be seen that are not visible to the naked eye. The image formed is then viewed through the eyepiece or camera attached to the microscope.


When you place a coin in water you are unable to pick it up from where its image is seen because of?

Refraction


A virtual image caused by reflection of light in the atmosphere is called?

You're going for "mirage", but we're not comfortable with that description. It's not really the "image" that's caused by refraction. It's more the location or direction in which the image is seen that's caused by refraction.


Is the image you see through the lenses oriented in the same way as the letter seen with the unaided eye?

using your unaided eye compare the image of the letter


What makes an object look wavy under water?

When light passes through different layers of water with varying densities, called refraction, the object's image may appear distorted or wavy. This distortion occurs due to the bending of light as it travels from one medium (air) to another (water), creating an optical illusion of movement in the image. This effect is commonly seen in shallow water where light is easily refracted.


What kind of image is not formed by real light rays?

A virtual image is not formed by real light rays. Instead, it appears to be located at a position where the light rays do not actually converge. This type of image is commonly seen in mirrors and lenses.


Explain why an inverted image is seen under a compound microscope?

The microscope you are using is probably old, and it has an odd number of convex lenses between the object and your eye. in addition to enlarging (or reducing) an image, an optical convex lense also inverts the image. If you were to invert the inverted image again, using another lense, then the resulting image will appear upright. So a microscpope with three lenses (most likely the number of lenses in the microscope you are using) inverts the image three times, resulting in an upside-down image. A microscope with four lenses shows an upgright image. That is why modern microscope manufacturers use an even number of lenses in a microscope (and in binoculars).


What does you mean by erect image?

An erect image refers to an optical image that is oriented the same way as the object it is created from. This type of image is seen in mirrors, lenses, and other optical systems where the image appears right-side up in relation to the object being viewed.


Distinguish between real and virtual image?

you are contradicting yourself here. a virtual image is VIRTUAL. meaning it technically doesn't exist, (though you can manipulate the light to see it) its focus exists beyond the plane of view and therefore you can't see it. to better explain this, pictures do a whole lot more, search for concave and convex lenses and compare the refraction of an image that you get


What is internal refraction?

internal refraction is when the ray of light is refracted, for example in a glass or plastic semicircle, and it's refracted inside the semicircle, notoutside.


Why do microscopes have lenses?

Since microscopes are instruments to see and observe very small objects which are not visible to naked eye, it needs to focus on them. The lenses are used for this purpose of focusing. If there will be no lens in the microscope then it will not be able to zoom and focus.