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LecturizedPhotographic Optics
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A thin lens forming an image
The first thing to know about a lens is how hard it bends light. Hold a magnifying glass in the sun: the rays arrive side by side, leave it leaning towards one another, and a little way behind the glass they meet in a bright dot. The distance from the glass to that dot is the focal length, and nearly everything else about the lens follows from it.
A lens is stronger when its glass is denser and its surfaces are more curved. Take ordinary glass, in which light travels one and a half times slower than in air, and curve both sides like a ball twenty centimetres across. Work it through and the focal length comes out at about ten centimetres: sunlight gathers into a point a palm's width behind the lens.
The book writes this as a formula, and we will come to it in a moment. It says no more than what we have just seen: denser glass or more curved surfaces, and the focal length gets shorter.
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Introduction
A thin lens forming an image
The distance from the glass to that dot is the focal length, and nearly everything else about the lens follows from it.
A lens is stronger when its glass is denser and its surfaces are more curved.
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