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The worksheet provides tasks for students to explore the focusing of light using a convex lens. Task A involves dimming the room, projecting an image onto paper, and predicting the effects of covering half the lens. Task B requires students to illustrate how light rays are refracted through convex lenses.

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Worksheet

The worksheet provides tasks for students to explore the focusing of light using a convex lens. Task A involves dimming the room, projecting an image onto paper, and predicting the effects of covering half the lens. Task B requires students to illustrate how light rays are refracted through convex lenses.

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Name: Worksheet

Focusing light

Task A: Focusing light to form an image


1) Dim the lighting in the room and stick a sheet of paper onto the
wall opposite a window.
2) Use a convex lens to produce an image of the view outside the
window on the sheet of paper.

3) Predict what you think you will see when half the lens is
covered.
4) Explain why you think you will see this.

5) Cover half the lens with black paper and observe what happens.

6) Were your prediction and explanation correct?


Write an improved explanation for what you saw happen.

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Focusing light Worksheet

Task B: Refraction of light by a convex lens


Complete the rays of light through each of these lenses to show how they each focus light.
Most of the rays should be refracted twice.

1)

2)

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