Lens and images
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I p|[ Introduction: Along with mirrors, lens complete the set of simple optical elements. Lens
+9M";'\c have been used for hundreds of years. Galileo constructed the first telescope from a pair of lens
.f|)od[ in 1609 and used it to discover, among other things, several of Jupiter’s moons. A lens forms
KK4rVb:- images by bending the incoming light as it passes. Image formation can be understood by
\)W Z D treating the incoming light as rays and using a simple geometric arguments. Like much of basic
$<L@B|}F) physics, this approach isn’t completely correct but is a good approximation. Because of the
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