Lens facts for kids
Lens can mean different things:
Contents
Places
- Lens, Pas-de-Calais, a city in the north of France
- Lens (Belgium), a municipality in Belgium
- Lens, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland
Other
- Lens (optics), an optical instrument
- Lens (eye), part of the eye
- A genus of plants, commonly called lentils
Images for kids
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A biconvex lens
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Lenses can be used to focus light
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Light being refracted by a spherical glass container full of water. Roger Bacon, 13th century
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Lens for LSST, a planned sky surveying telescope
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The position of the focus of a spherical lens depends on the radii of curvature of the two facets.
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Close-up view of a flat Fresnel lens.
See also
In Spanish: Lente para niños
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