Why Magnification Works

Jay S Huebner; Terry L. Smith

Why Magnification Works

Jay S Huebner, Terry L. Smith

University of North Florida

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Abstract

The simplest way to magnify the view of a small object is to bring the object closer to the eye, and of course science teachers know about magnifying glasses, telescopes, and microscopes.But why magnification works seems intuitive and is not usually explained to our students. We present here a few ideas on magnification that we use in our classroom and some general information on vision that we hope will be helpful to other teachers.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	102-103
Number of pages	2
Journal	The Physics Teacher
Volume	32
Issue number	2
State	Published - Feb 1994

Keywords

education
optics
physics

Disciplines

Optics
Physics

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