Lens Lab Activity Name Physies Purpose: To study the properties of light and lenses. ‘Set-up: Lens an fete - Li souve a PART 1: IMAGES CREATED VERGING (DOUBLE CONVEX) LENS: 1. Plug the light bulb in and move the screen and lens until you get a crisp, focused picture of the bulb on the screen, 2. Now observe the picture, which is formed. Ist upide down or right-side up compare to your light bulb? Is i magnified or reduced in size?” You can also put your hand behind the bulb and ee it in your image! BCC yreckeod srantcar See my 2 a ‘ 2 — ——~ Ks Ze 7 3, Try holding apen or pencil right beside the light bulb and move itaeross the light bulb. Which way does it move in the wwe? So plprerect IMC Ge 4, What happens to the picture if you: 4. cover the top half of the light bulb with an index card. cover the top half ofthe fens with an index card Id mockes (te PART 2: Real images from the Lens: 1. Move the lens so that there is a focused image of the light bulb on the screen that is SMALLER then the light bulb itself, Record the distance (in cm) from the bulb to the lens (dp ~ meaning distance to object) AND the lens to the screen (di meaning distance to image) M orn do 2. Move the lens AND the screen until you get a focused image which is the SAME SIZE as the light bulb. Record d and tee Jor! ty a - loo 3, Move the lens AND the screea until you get a focused image which is LARGER than the light bulb. Record do and di: ane YU4. What did you noticed had to happen to the distance from the lens to the bulb when you wanted the picture to be larger?” A | C . \r got older (Wht happened othe tans rom the st the sen when you wat the piste tobe as? \E os “CO ord hor ona res rg gre kh is fg one large sndsintree” Jour WENGS CeueS) Eo Haas Iygedok Yousr aes e AN * ZA \ ogee PART: ling the f vour le 1. For this portion of the lab, you will need to take your double convex lens, a ruler, and this lab paper out into the hallway and find the sun through a window (or atleast some sunlight. 2. Aim your lens at the sun and focus the light toa bright spot on your paper. 3. Once you have the bright dot, hold it there and have a partner measure the distance from the lens to the paper. This is called the focal length of your lens, and is how they determine prescriptions for contacts and glasses! Record the lens focal length below: Focal length \ em from 1, Place your lens back on the meterstick in the classroom and now move the lens so that itis a distance from the light bulb ‘which is smaller then the focal length you just found. Try to find the image on the paper. What do you find? Vs Lye Vo We 2. Remove the sen and SSE ack trough the ln tthe bulb. What do youse? Isthe image upright or inverted? Lager corsmaller? ; Ss 5 Vis Org A™ gn Se UR MOE Se 3. Replace the double convex (converging) lens with the double concave (diverging) lens. Place the lens any distance from the bulb, ‘Try to find the image. Describe what you see. A shad 4. Look back through the double concave lens towards the object. Describe the image you see. Is it larger or smaller? Upside down or right-side up? PLMoYe So CU 5, REAL images are upside-down and VIRTUAL images are right side up. Which type of lenses creates each image? Daddle— conver vent» CONCAVE: Real