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Episode 52: Applications of Optics

The Science of Everything Podcast

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How Much Magnification Do You Need?

A lens is a piece of transparent material so glass or plastic that allows light to pass through it whereas a mirror reflects light. Convex mirrors can never produce real images because they diverge like rather than converge. I won't go into too much more detail about exactly where you have to put objects in order to get exactly how much magnification but the real important thing is just to understand that depending on where we place the objects and depending on what type of lens we're using, sorry what type of mirror we're using you can get different types of images.

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