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    Experiment 8 Focal Lenght Og Convex Lens

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    The document describes an experiment to determine the focal length of a convex lens. Key steps include: 1) Positioning a convex lens on an optical bench and adjusting its position for perpendicularity. 2) Placing an object needle at varying distances (u) from the lens and measuring the corresponding image distances (v). 3) Plotting the u and v measurements on a graph and determining the focal length (f) from the relationship between u, v, and f for a convex lens.

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    Experiment 8 Focal Lenght Og Convex Lens

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    The document describes an experiment to determine the focal length of a convex lens. Key steps include: 1) Positioning a convex lens on an optical bench and adjusting its position for perpendicularity. 2) Placing an object needle at varying distances (u) from the lens and measuring the corresponding image distances (v). 3) Plotting the u and v measurements on a graph and determining the focal length (f) from the relationship between u, v, and f for a convex lens.

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    The document describes an experiment to determine the focal length of a convex lens. Key steps include: 1) Positioning a convex lens on an optical bench and adjusting its position for perpendicularity. 2) Placing an object needle at varying distances (u) from the lens and measuring the corresponding image distances (v). 3) Plotting the u and v measurements on a graph and determining the focal length (f) from the relationship between u, v, and f for a convex lens.

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    Experiment 8 Focal Lenght Og Convex Lens

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    The document describes an experiment to determine the focal length of a convex lens. Key steps include: 1) Positioning a convex lens on an optical bench and adjusting its position for perpendicularity. 2) Placing an object needle at varying distances (u) from the lens and measuring the corresponding image distances (v). 3) Plotting the u and v measurements on a graph and determining the focal length (f) from the relationship between u, v, and f for a convex lens.

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    Experiment 8

    Aim
    To find, the focal length of a convex lens by plotting graphs between u and v or between 1/u
    and 1/v.

    Apparatus
    An optical bench with three uprights (central upright fixed, two outer uprights with lateral
    movement), a convex lens with lens holder, two optical needles, (one thin, one thick) a
    knitting needle and a half metre scale.

    Theory
    The relation between u, v and f for a convex lens is

    where,
    f = focal length of convex lens
    u = distance of object needle from optical centre of the lens
    v = distance of image needle from optical centre of the lens.

    Procedure
    1. Find rough focal length of convex lens.

    2. Clamp the holder with lens in a fixed upright and keep the upright at 50 cm mark.
    3. Adjust the lens such that its surface is vertical and perpendicular to the length of the
    optical bench.
    4. Keep the upright fixed in this position throughout.
    5. Take the thin optical needle as object needle (O). Mount it in outer laterally
    move¬able upright near zero end.
    6. Move the object needle upright and clamp it at a distance (in full cms) nearly 1.5
    times the obtained rough focal length of the lens.
    7. An inverted and enlarged image of the object needle will be seen. Tip of the image
    must lie in the middle of the lens.
    8. Mount the thick optical needle (image needle) in the fourth upright near the other end
    of the optical bench.
    9. Adjust the height of the image needle so that its tip is seen in line with the tip of the
    image when seen with right open eye.
    10. Remove the parallax tip to tip.
    11. Move object needle upright away from lens in steps of 1 cm to get 4 more
    observations Repeat the experiment.
    12. Record all the observations as given ahead.

    Observations
    Rough focal length of the given convex lens = 10 cm
    Result
    The focal length of the given convex lens as determined from uv graph = 10.1 cm

    Precautions

    1. Tips of the object and image needles should lie at the same height as the centre
    of the lens.
    2. Parallax should be removed from tip to tip by keeping eye at a distance at least
    30 cm away from the needle.
    3. The object needle should be placed at such a distance that only real, inverted
    image of it is formed.
    4. Index correction for u and v should be applied.

    Sources of error

    1. The uprights may not be the vertical.


    2. Parallax removal may not be perfect.

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