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LENSES -
CONVERGING AND DIVERGING








EQUIPMENT

    redball.gif (326 bytes) Blackboard Optics Kit
   



NARRATIVE
            Use the converging and diverging Plexiglas lenses with the blackboard optics kit. The radii of curvature of the curved surfaces of these lenses are equal in magnitude but of opposite sign. Consequently, they have equal focal lengths of opposite sign.