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Difference between convex and concave lens

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Difference between convex and concave lens
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 11 months ago

Appearance

A concave lens is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges.

A convex lens is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.

Also known as

It is also known as Diverging Lens

It is also known as Converging Lens

Application

Used in Glasses, some telescopes, spy holes in doors, etc. It is also used for the correction of the problem in short sight

Used in camera, focus sunlight, overhead projector, projector microscope, simple telescope, magnifying glasses, etc. It is also used for the correction of the problem in long sight.

Focal Length

Negative Focal Length

Positive Focal Length

Incident Rays

It diverges the incident rays away from the principal axis.

It converges the incident rays towards the principal axis.

Ayan Khan Khan 5 years, 11 months ago

Concave mirror-the mirror that curves in the reflection surface is concave mirror. Convex mirror-the mirror that curves out; the reflection surface is convex mirror
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