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Lenses

A lens is a portion of a transparent refracting medium bounded by two surfaces which are generally spherical or cylindrical or one curved and one plane surface.

Basically, the lenses are classified as

  • convex lens or converging lens
  • concave or diverging lens
Sub Topics
  • Convex Lens
  • Concave Lens
 

Convex Lens

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

In a convex lens at least one of its surfaces is bulging out at the middle. According to their shapes the convex lenses are classified as

types of concave lenses
  • bi-convex or double convex
  • convexo - plano
  • convexo - concave

Concave Lens

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A lens which is thinner at the middle and thicker at the edges is called a concave lens.

Like convex lenses these lenses are also classified as

  • bi-concave
  • concave - plano
  • concavo - convex

types of convex lenses


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