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Name: _______________________ Ray Optics PhET Lab Introduction: When you hold your glasses far away from your face, what do you see? If you look through a magnifying glass and move it away from your face, something odd happens as you look through the moving lens. The light that reflects off images and passes through a lens before it arrives at your eye can be simulated as a series of rays. In this lab, you will investigate lens optics using the 3-ray system parallel-focal, focal-parallel, central . Remember, the real focal point of a lens is behind the lens. The lens we will use in this simulation is a thin double-convex lens. Important Formulas: or or Please note that in some texts, the object’s distance is given by “p” and the image’s by “q” Procedure: PheT Simulations Play With Sims Light and Radiation Geometric Optics Take some time and familiarize yourself with the simulation. You are able to move the object and the lens and change the characteristics of the lens. During this lab, be sure to always anchor your image on the principal axis. The pencil’s eraser works well for this. Click to draw the rays using the 3-ray system you learned in class. Move the object towards the lens. What happens to the image formed on the other side of the lens? _______________________________________________________________________________ As you move the object inside the lens’ focal point something odd happens. Rays that don’t meet diverge. Does this mean no image will be formed? __________ Where is the image? _________________________________________ Click on “Virtual Image.” How are a real image and a virtual image similar? _________________________________ How are they different? ____________________________________________ Click on the ruler. You will need to make several measurements during the lab. You may, if you wish, leave your measurements in cm when using the formulas given above. Set the lens’s refractive index n to 1.8 and the radius