Tag: lens Focal Length

  • Understanding the language of Thin Lens

    Understanding the language of Thin Lens

    In summary Language of thin lenses means that thin lenses have their own vocabulary mostly that describes various parts of the lens. This parts includes: We will discuss all the highlighted parts in this lesson Center of Curvature C It is defined as the center of the sphere of which the surface of the lens…

  • Focal length from lens formula

    Focal length from lens formula

    By use of mirror formula that had been derived earlier, the unknown focal length of a lens can be determined experimentally. We describe the experiment here and explains how to extract the the focal length from the relationship.