Lab Group #10 – E-MOD

Andrew Dinh
Lauren O’Brien
Alicia Pequignot
Kate Renner

Lab 17.2 Mirrors, Lenses and Images

1. The image in a mirror

2. Refra
cting
light

through a lens
3. Analyzing what you observed
a. As the laser beam travels along the axis through the lens, the beam of light
goes straight through the center with no noticeable bend or refraction. The
incident and refracted rays are the same; they travel in an almost straight
continuous line.
b. As the laser beam travels parallel to the axis, the beam of light begins
traveling straight but bends toward the axis as it exits the lens. The
incident rays travel parallel to the axis while the refracted rays travel
toward the axis and through the focal point (intersection).
c. In picture
d. In picture
e. In picture
 4. Finding the image formed by a lens

5. Characteristics of the image

a. The image is smaller and the magnification is 0.5.
b. The image is inverted.
c. The image is closer to the lens than the original arrow.
6. The image from a single lens
Focal lengths:
White lens: 12.6 cm
Black lens: 15.4 cm
a. The image created by a single lens was smaller than the object.
b. The image was inverted.
7. Finding the magnification of a lens
Distance to # of squares # of squares
paper on the graph paper in the lens Magnification
(cm) (unmagnified squares) (magnified squares)

11.7 6 2.5 2.4

5.3 6 5 1.2