converging lens
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Farsightedness, or hyperopia, is the inability to see close objects and is corrected with a converging lens to increase power.
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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 25.36 Ray tracing predicts the image location and size for an object held closer to a converging lens than its focal length.
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Intercepting the luminous portion of his spectrum he brought, by a converging lens, the ultra-red rays to a focus, but by this condensation he obtained no light.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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