Physics 2102 Jonathan Dowling Lecture 38 WED 22 APR Optics Images Optical Instruments the human eye The human eye consists of a variable geometry lens crystalline which produces a real image on a screen retina which is transmitted to the brain via the optical nerve The cristalline automatically adjusts itself so we see well any object placed between infinity and a distance called near point about 25cm for a typical 20 year old The image distance is the eye diameter 2cm Optical instruments combination of several thin lenses F2 F1 F2 F1 If lenses are very close the compound lens has 1 f 1 f1 1 f2 Corrective Glasses A farsighted person needs a convergent lens A nearsighted person needs a divergent lens The power of a lens is measured in dioptres P 1 f with f is in m Glasses with 6D are divergent glasses with f 1 6D 0 17m 17cm The dioptres add Two lenses have 1 f 1 f1 1 f2 D D1 D2 Magnifying lens The magnification of an object is m i p i h but i eye diameter Maximum magnification m 2cm 25cm We d like to make p smaller move the object closer We use a magnifying lens to produce a larger image than our eye can see Very near the focus Angular magnification different from lateral m h h 25cm m f f 25cm Microscope To increase the magnification of a lens one wants to have a short focal length That means small radii of curvature very curved lens This in turn implies a lot of aberration one is immediately out of the thin lens approximation A solution to this is obtained by combining two lenses The resulting device is called microscope Object O is magnified by the objective i m p And its image is magnified by the eyepiece 25cm m f Total magnification s 25cm M mm f ob f ey Telescope Telescopes are arrangement of lenses that improve vision of objects very far away They are configured like a microscope However the objective forms an image essentially at its focus and therefore the eyepiece s focus has to be placed at that same point The magnification is given by the ratio ey ob and since ob h f ob m ey h f ey f ob f ey Refracting telescopes are of limited use chromatic aberration Reflecting telescopes built with mirrors are preferred in astronomy Example The world s largest refracting telescope is at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago at Williams Bay Wisconsin The objective has a diameter of 102cm and a focal length of 19 5m The focal length of the eyepiece is 10cm What is its magnifying power f ob 19 5m m 195 f ey 0 1m Why so large 102cm Because the larger the objective the more light it gathers Reflective telescopes Keck observatory Mauna Kea Hawaii and the Hale Bopp comet Largest optical telescope composed of 36 hexagonal mirror segments performing as a single mirror 10m wide
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