Advanced Placement • College • High School / Physics
Focal Length of a Converging Lens
Students use an optics light source, optics track, and viewing screen to measure the image and object distances associated with the real image formed by a converging lens, and then determine the focal length of the lens.
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Standards Correlations
| IB Topics | AP Topics |
|---|---|
| C.1 | 6.E.5.1; 6.E.5.2 |
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Focal Length of a Converging Lens - Distance Learning Lab
Determine the focal length of a converging lens using the provided measurements of object and real image distances. DOWNLOADS data file & student lab PDF/DOCX:...
