What are convex and concave lenses? For which condition, convex lens will have negative focal length?

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What are convex and concave lenses? For which condition, convex lens will have negative focal length?


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1. A lens is said to be convex if it is thicker in the middle and narrowing towards the periphery. According to Cartesian sign convention, its focal length is positive.

2. Convex lens is visualized to be internal cross section of two spheres (or one sphere or a plane surface).

3. A lens is concave if it is thicker at periphery and narrows down towards centre and has negative focal length.

4. Concave lens is visualized to be external cross section of two spheres.

5. For lenses of material optically rarer than the medium in which those are kept, convex lenses will have negative focal length and they will diverge the incident rays.

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