Refraction of Light

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Table of Contents

Refraction of Light

Index of refraction

The laws of refraction: Snell’s laws

Total Internal Refraction

Total refraction in everyday life

Dispersion

Lenses

Constructing the images produced by lenses

Constructing the image in some special cases

Calculating the properties of the image

Non-perfect lens: aberrations

Applications of lenses: I. Cameras

Applications: II. Our eyes and eyeglasses

Applications: III. Magnifiers

Application: IV. Telescopes

Summary

Home-work assignments

Author: Neda Zoltan

Email: zneda@nd.edu

Home Page: http://www.fi.uib.no/~neda

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