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Which statement is true regarding the properties of light? - ANSWER -Light
behaves in two different ways: like a particle and like a wave.
Use Prentice's Rule to find the power of a lens that is ground with 2 prism diopters
2 mm from the optical center. - ANSWER -10 diopters
The visible spectrum is: - ANSWER -Between 380 and 760 nm.
How does light bend when it enters a medium denser (a higher refractive index)
than where it came from? - ANSWER -towards the normal
The low Abbe value of polycarbonate indicates: - ANSWER -High dispersion of
light.
High-index lenses can help make a lens thinner by: - ANSWER -Causing the light
to bend more.
Single vision lens - ANSWER -lens with the same power throughout the lens
Spherocylinder lens - ANSWER -lenses with a sphere (to correct nearsightedness
or farsightnedness) and a cylinder (to correct astigmatism)
multifocal lenses - ANSWER -lenses in which the lowwr portion of the lens has an
add that makes it more magnified in power than the rest of the lens. A bifocal has
two powers and a trifocal has three
, chromatic aberration - ANSWER -when the lens does not focus all the
wavelengths of color to one point
distortion - ANSWER -when the different points in the periphery of a lens have
different amounts of magnification
spherical aberration - ANSWER -occurs when parallel light rays move along the
optical axis
coma - ANSWER -the typr of lens aberration called coma occurs when parallel
light rays going through a lens focus in a ring shaped pattern with a V shaped or
comet like flare on one end of the image
abbe value - ANSWER -the amount of chromatic abberation produced by a lens
material
abbe value for plastic - ANSWER -1.74= 32 abbe
1.7= 36 abbe
1.67= 32
1.6= 42 abbe
abbe value for polycarbonate - ANSWER -30
abbe value for trivex - ANSWER -45
abbe value for glass - ANSWER -58
abbe value for standard plastic - ANSWER -58
curvature of field - ANSWER -occurs when the things a person sees through the
edge of a lens dont focus on the retina at the same time as the objects the person
sees through the center of the lens