Thin lens

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Thin lens

Postby korry » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:10 am

Is possible made idealistics thin lens in Algodoo?
You can see it here.
Thin lens is idealsitics, but is teached in school.
There is three rays, which will cross in one point.
1st - comes parallery and after lens comes to focus
2nd - comes to focus and after lens goes parallely
3rd - through the center and did change direction.
These three rays is used to image represenatation.
As I wrote, algodoo is too much real for teaching physics, I can show, how representation of image looks in real world, but students uses idealistics thin lens.
Thanks for reply.
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Re: Thin lens

Postby link0007 » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:25 am

AFAIK that's not supposed to be what the actual lens itself looks like.. It's a schematic representation that saves you the trouble of drawing the right arcs in the lens for the desired strength.

So no, you can't do this.
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