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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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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For example, a powerful converging lens will focus parallel light rays closer to itself and will have a smaller focal length than a weak lens.
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That is, f is positive and do > f , so that we may expect an image similar to the case 1 real image formed by a converging lens.
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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 John Tyndall
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