Focusing

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Introduction

Summary

This animation illustrates the conditions necessary to obtain a clear image by employing ray diagrams for a thin lens.  A clear image can only be obtained if all of the rays (3 are shown here) coming from the same point B are focused at the same unique point.
This condition only exists at one location. Elsewhere, the image is blurred.
You can drag the screen to illustrate the way to focus an image.

Goals

• To understand a ray diagram for  a thin lens and the focusing process.

Features

Click and horizontally drag the screen.

Tags

blurred-image screen projector lens accommodation focusing