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Lenses Aplications: Movie Projector - Photocopy Machine - Magnifying Glass


Practical Applications of Lenses

            Now, no one really cares about figurines in mirrors outside of a physics class or a physics textbook.  But actually, lenses do have practical uses in every day life.  Every time you go to a movie theater to see a movie, every time you go to photocopy something, lenses are being used.

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The Optics Book

1. Before Optics
2. Light and Illumination
3. Reflection and refraction
4. Geometrical Optics and thin lenses

Thin Lenses
Ray Diagrams
Equations
Mirrors
Practical Aplications
Movie Projector
Photocopy Machine
Magnifying Glass
5. The human eye
6. Optics instruments
7. Scattering & spectrum
8. Color
9. Interferences & difraction
10. Polarization
11. Quantic Optics


Before Optics - Ligth and Ilumination - Reflection and refraction - Geometrical Optics and thin lenses - The human eye - Optics instruments - Scattering & spectrum - Color - Interferences & difraction - Polarization - Quantic Optics

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