Lesson: Image Production Using Lenses Physics

Students will be able to

• recognize that a real image is produced by converging light rays,
• recognize that a virtual image is produced by diverging light rays,
• recognize that concave lenses only produce virtual images,
• recognize that for convex lenses incident parallel light rays produce a real image of an object at a greater distance from the lens than the focal length of the lens,
• recognize that for convex lenses incident parallel light rays produce a virtual image of an object at a lesser distance from the lens than the focal length of the lens,
• recognize that the image produced by a convex lens is smaller than the object for objects at distances from the lens greater than twice the focal length of the lens,
• recognize that the image produced by a convex lens is larger than the object for objects at distances from the lens less than twice the focal length of the lens,
• recognize that the image produced by a convex lens is the same size as the object for objects at distances from the lens equal to twice the focal length of the lens,
• recognize that a real image produced by a converging lens is inverted relative to the object imaged,
• recognize that a virtual image produced by a convex lens or a concave lens has the same vertical orientation as the object imaged.