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Lenses.
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Lenses Introduction Lenses are a transparent material shaped to refract light. Lenses are remarkable and have helped mankind develop in the so many years the world now uses for almost and visual activity from swimming goggles to open heart surgery lenses are used in some form. But lenses are not all the same. There are two main types of lenses convex and concave. These two lenses are opposites of each other and produce different images. Concave lenses are rarer to find in every day life. A concave lens is curved inwards it is shaped like two dishes placed back-to-back. Light passing through a concave lens diverges. Unlike convex lenses, which produce real images, concave lenses produce only virtual images. A virtual image is one from which light rays only appear to come from but in actual fact the do not. This appears as a smaller to produce image just in front of...
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