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Publication Date: 2010-Apr
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Can We Trace "Arbitrary" Rays to Locate an Image Formed by a Thin Lens?
Suppapittayaporn, Decha; Panijpan, Bhinyo; Emarat, Narumon
Physics Teacher, v48 n4 p256-257 Apr 2010
After learning how to trace the principal rays [Fig. 1(i)] through a thin lens in order to form the image in the conventional way, students sometimes ask whether it is possible to use other rays emanating from the object to form exactly the same image--for example, the two arbitrary rays shown in Fig. 1(ii). The answer is a definite yes, and this paper presents a method of doing so.
Descriptors: Light, Problem Solving, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Laboratory Procedures, Teaching Methods, Optics
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