Learn about and revise lenses and their power, real and virtual images, and ray diagrams with GCSE Bitesize Physics.

We compare and contrast concave and convex lenses by drawing ray diagrams.

Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." The first telescopes, invented in 1608, consisted of two simple concave ...

In other words, the surface of the liquids formed concave or convex curves similar to shape of lenses used in cameras and eyeglasses. And both Kuiper and Hendricks figured out an innovative way to ...

The properties of concave and convex lenses were first described around the year 1000, although magnifiers in the form of lens-shaped crystals or glass may have been used much earlier.

Learn about and revise lenses, images, magnification and absorption, refraction and transmission of light with GCSE Bitesize Physics.