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  2. Thin lens - Wikipedia

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    There are other sign conventions such as Cartesian sign convention where the thin lens equation is written as + =. For a thick lens, the same form of lens equation is applicable with the modification that parameters in the equation are with respect to principal planes of the lens. [3]

  3. Sign convention - Wikipedia

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    The sign of the weight of a tensor density, such as the weight of the determinant of the covariant metric tensor. The active and passive sign convention of current, voltage and power in electrical engineering. A sign convention used for curved mirrors assigns a positive focal length to concave mirrors and a negative focal length to convex mirrors.

  4. Radius of curvature (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Radius of curvature sign convention for optical design. Radius of curvature (ROC) has specific meaning and sign convention in optical design.A spherical lens or mirror surface has a center of curvature located either along or decentered from the system local optical axis.

  5. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    In the sign convention used here, the value of R 1 will be positive if the first lens surface is convex, and negative if it is concave. The value of R 2 is negative if the second surface is convex, and positive if concave. Sign conventions vary between different authors, which results in different forms of these equations depending on the ...

  6. Lens - Wikipedia

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    Sign convention for Gaussian lens equation [25] Parameter Meaning + SignSign s o: The distance between an object and a lens. Real object Virtual object s i: The distance between an image and a lens. Real image Virtual image f: The focal length of a lens. Conversing lens Diverging lens y o: The height of an object from the optical axis ...

  7. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    When measuring the height of an inverted image using the cartesian sign convention (where the x-axis is the optical axis) the value for h i will be negative, and as a result M will also be negative. However, the traditional sign convention used in photography is " real is positive, virtual is negative". [ 1 ]

  8. Geometrical optics - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, the magnification of a lens is given by = = where the negative sign is given, by convention, to indicate an upright object for positive values and an inverted object for negative values. Similar to mirrors, upright images produced by single lenses are virtual while inverted images are real.

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