Image Formation in Optical Systems
Links and useful resources
- START HERE: Physics 2024 class outline
- Physics classroom online interactive tools
- OpenSTAX high school physics
- NotebookLM physics notebook
- Physics projects
- AP Physics 1 Dan Fullerton videos
Lesson-specific resource links
Lightning Round Questions
- Why to ocean waves always crash inward toward the beach, even on a small island?
- What would provide a greater impulse on impact: a 10 kg mass going 1 meter per second, or a 5 kg mass going 2 m/s? Which one has more kinetic energy?
- You launch a rock from a slingshot straight upward at 98 m/s. How high will it go before it comes back down?
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Lesson content with examples
- Real images: When light rays from a point converge on a different point, a real image is formed. Real images will show up on a surface if it is placed at the point of convergence.
- Virtual images: When there is a point that rays from a point on an object seem to come from, then a virtual image is formed. Nothing would show up on a surface there, but it appears to your eye as if there is something there.
Media resources
- Youtube search for "Real images: When light rays from a point converge on a different point, a real image is formed. Real images will show up on a surface if it is placed at the point of convergence."
- Youtube search for "Virtual images: When there is a point that rays from a point on an object seem to come from, then a virtual image is formed. Nothing would show up on a surface there, but it appears to your eye as if there is something there."