converging lens
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To use a convex lens as a magnifier, the object must be closer to the converging lens than its focal length.
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The converging lens produces an image farther from the eye than the object, so that the farsighted person can see it clearly.
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Figure 26.7 Correction of farsightedness uses a converging lens that compensates for the under convergence by the eye.
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A student wishes to predict the magnification of an image given the distance from the object to a converging lens with an unknown index of refraction.
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Toward this aperture there may be moved either a converging lens of five dioptries or a diverging lens of the same diameter, but of six dioptries.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
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