diverging lens
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Figure 25.28 Rays of light entering a diverging lens parallel to its axis are diverged, and all appear to originate at its focal point F .
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The diverging lens partially corrects this, although it is usually not possible to do so completely.
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Figure 25.37 A car viewed through a concave or diverging lens looks upright.
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Figure 25.38 Ray tracing predicts the image location and size for a concave or diverging lens.
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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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