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PROBLEM SET#5: REFRACTION - Lenses and Images

Remember:
1. Light can pass or travel through transparent material/medium.
2. Refraction is the bending of light as it travels from one transparent medium to another.
3. The bending happens at the boundary between two transparent medium when light suddenly changes
speed due to the materials difference in optical density or index of refraction (n).
4. The higher the medium’s index of refraction the slower light can travel in that medium.
5. Two types of bending:
a. Toward the normal line – if the first medium’s index of refraction (n1) is less than (<) the second
medium’s index of refraction (n2). This will tell us that light travel slower in the second medium.
b. Away from the normal line – if the first medium’s index of refraction (n1) is greater than (>) the
second medium’s index of refraction (n2). This will tell us that light travel faster in the second
medium.
6. Lenses are smoothly curved transparent materials that uses refraction to create images.
7. Two types of lenses:
a. Convex Lens - is thick at the center while thin in the rims/edges. It is also called converging lens
because it focuses light into a common point.
b. Concave Lens - is thin at the center while thick in the rims/edges. It is also called diverging lens
because it scatters light in different directions.

Answer the following in your Science Notebook. ANSWER ONLY

Part I: Study the refraction of light diagram below and answer the questions that follows:

1. Which ray of light tells you that Medium 1 has lower index of refraction than Medium 2?
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2. Which ray of light tells you that light travel faster in Medium 2?
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3. What is your reference in determining the amount of bending?

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4. Where does the bending happens? _________________________

5. What causes refraction? ____________________________

I. LENSES AND IMAGES:
Describe the images formed by lenses using the L.O.S.T. of image:
L = location - (Beyond 2F1, At 2F1, Between 2F1 and F1, At F1, Between F1 and O,
Beyond 2F2, At 2F2, Between 2F2 and F2, At F2, Between F2 and O)
O = orientation - (Upright, Inverted)
S = size - (same size, smaller/reduced, larger/enlarged)
T = type – (virtual, real)

1. Convex Lens Images:

Object at infinity:
L = At F2
O = Inverted
S = Reduced
T = Real

a. Object beyond 2F1:

L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________

b. Object at 2F1:

L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________

c. Object Bet. 2F1 and F1:

L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________
 d. Object at F1:
L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________

e. Object Bet. F1 and O:

L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________

2. Concave Lens Images:

a. Object Bet. 2F1 and F1:

L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________

b. Object At 2F1:

L = ______________
O = ______________
S = ______________
T = ______________