Refraction from a Spherical Surface: Thin Lens

2017100156
PHY13L/B1
CE/2

1. DATA
The data presented the focal lengths of the lenses through different experiments: with object at infinity
and object at finite distance. At object at infinite distance, the focal length resulted the same for the actual
focal length of the lenses, 10cm and 20 cm. For the finite distance, it resulted to a focal length close to the
actual, 9.9844cm and 19.71cm. By graphical method, the average focal length resulted to 9.99cm from x
and y intercept. Lastly the data compare the magnification in terms of object and image distance and the
magnification in terms of the object and image height.

2. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The experiment utilizes the refraction of light through the lenses to determine the focal point by different
distances. Based on the data, the focal length is the distance between the image and the lens when object
placed at infinity and supported by the equation in computing for focal length. For a finite distance, the
focal length can also be determine through the resulted object distance and image distance from the
lenses. With finite distance given, it can be observe that image can be form in two ways, lens near the
object or near the image. The two position are observe to have relationship, the closer the lens to the
image the smaller the image and bigger image if lens is closer to the object. Another is through graphical
technique, by plotting the data from various distances of object to image, it presented a linear relationship
with object distance and image distance. The graph was used to identify the x and y intercept and to be
converted to be focal length. Lastly based on the data presented, the magnification is a ratio of image
height to the object height, as the height of the image differs in relation to the position of the lens and the
focal length. Thus, both mathematical results of magnification based on the experiment were compared
observing the relationship of magnification to the distance and size of both object and image.

3. CONCLUSION
Focal length utilizes distance between object and lens and image and lens presenting a linear relationship
for both object at infinity and object with finite distance. Moreover, position of lens is inversely
proportional to the size of the image, a farther lens position the bigger the image and vice versa.