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Why aren't all objects and their images same in size?
Suppose there is an object in front of a convex lens and we know that the light rays from each point on the surface of object will converge at a different point and form an image. So that means that ...
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How can solve to calculate position of image for any random point and random paraxial rays?
I am a high school student and I have a confusion related to optics {image formation via spherical mirrors) in all my books they say to find location of image its convenient to use the following rays&...
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Reflection on moving mirrors [closed]
Say I have an endless mirror, in a x y plane, at y=1.
Situation 1: the mirror is stationary and when we send light vertically from the origin, the light reflects back and returns to the origin.
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why light differaction occurs on passing small holes?
I have read about the relation between the wavelength and the hole in the Young double slit exiperemnt but I am not sure how that causes diffraction. I only know of one case which is a bundle of light ...
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In geometric optics we treat light as a collection of particles?
I've been reading the book "Geometric Mechancis" by Darryl Holm and the in the first chapter he treats geometric optics. There the author talks about light rays and those light rays looks like ...
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