ASSIGNMENT 2

1. Describe the similarities between a camera and your eye.

- The similarities between a camera and my eye is the cornea and lens also there’s
a lot of similarities between camera and eye but I want to focus on cornea and
lens, when we say cornea it is a transparent curved structure that sits in the
front of the eye, it work together with the lens which is behind in our iris to focus
light on to retina, the cornea takes the diverging rays of light and bends them
through the pupil, the round opening in the iris it acts in a similar way to the
camera lens which sits in the front of the camera and is also curved, the
curvature on both Cornea and the camera lens allow them a larger field of view
to the right and left instead of just to the front.

2. Can a person be nearsighted and farsighted at the same time?

- No, an eye cannot be nearsighted and farsighted at the same time, if the person
can have one near sighted eye, and one far sighted eye. Otherwise it’s not
possible
However, people growing older will lose the elacticity of their lens, thus can’t
focus on nearby object, this isn’t being farsighted, but presbyopia, the loss of
one’s lens’ elasticity, thus needing reading glasses.

3. Research on an instrument that uses a combination of lenses?

- There are many instrument that uses a combination of lenses like telescopes and
microscopes, which use multiple lenses to create images. Analyzing any system
having multiple lenses shows that it works in stages where each lens forms an
image of the object.
Microscope has two converging lenses. This is because it is easier to get higher
magnification with two lenses rather than just one. Use of one lens can magnify
5 times more and using a second will magnify 7 times, and you will get an overall
magnification of 35 which is not possible in one lens. It’s an easy procedure than
to get magnification by a factor of 35 with a single lens. A ray diagram of the
microscope arrangement is given below. Here you can see the image is the
object for the second lens and the image formed by the second lens is the image
that you would see when you looked through the microscope. Next is telescope
As we use this to view an object that is a very distant place, therefore, a
telescope needs at least two lenses. The first lens forms a diminished image
 which is nearer to its focal point. This device is designed in a way so that real and
inverted image formed by the first lens is just nearer to the second lens than its
focal length. With the help of a magnifying glass, we get an enlarged image that
is virtual. The final image then inverted with respect to the object. This doesn’t
really matter with the astronomical telescope. While observing an object which
is on earth, we usually prefer a straight image that is obtained using the third
lens.

4. Research on how mirrors and lenses are used in different fields like in
medicine, communications and science?

- Medical Mirror encourages people to track their vital signals on a daily basis.
Computer vision captures an optical signal reflected off a person’s face.
The lenses are used in Microscopes which are used for formation magnified
images of the tiny bodies that can not be seen with the naked eye and they are
used in making of medical glasses to treat the vision defects.
The use of mirror and lenses in communication is you can use a laser light to
make signals in your family, friends or other people and it builds a
communication, which are then sent through an optical fiber. All of the light
reflects off the inside of the fiber, so none of it escapes. As a result, the signal
remains strong even over long distances. More than one signal can travel
through an optical fiber at the same time.