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Lens Maker's formula is considered one the most difficult concept.
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The focal length of the lens as shown in the figure is:
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The refractive index of the material of a concave lens is $\mu$. It is immersed in a medium of refractive index $\mu_{1.}$ A parallel beam of light is incident on the lens. The path of the emergent rays when $\mu_1>\mu$ is :
The following graph depicts the inverse of magnification versus the distance between the object and lens data for a setup. The focal length of the lens used in the setup is
Lens Maker's formula -
Derivation of Lens maker formula -
Let us take a lens having refractive index = $\mu_2$ and the surrounding is having refractive index = $\mu_1$. Also, let us assume that the lens is having two refracting surfaces having radii R1 and R2.
Here I' is the intermediate image and I is the final image.
As we have learned the formula of refraction at a single spherical surface. Let us apply this to the surface ACB, we get -
$
\frac{\mu_2}{v_1}-\frac{\mu_1}{u}=\frac{\mu_2-\mu_1}{R_1} \ldots \text { (1) }
$
Similarly for the second surface ADB-
$
\frac{\mu_1}{v}-\frac{\mu_2}{v_1}=\frac{\mu_1-\mu_2}{R_2} \ldots \text { (2) }
$
Here, $\mathrm{v}_1$ is the position of the image formed by the first surface and the same image will now act as an object for the second surface.
Now adding equations (1) and (2),
$
\begin{aligned}
& \frac{\mu_1}{v}-\frac{\mu_1}{u}=\left(\mu_2-\mu_1\right)\left[\frac{1}{R_1}-\frac{1}{R_2}\right] \\
& \Rightarrow \frac{1}{v}-\frac{1}{u}=\left(\frac{\mu_2}{\mu_1}-1\right)\left[\frac{1}{R_1}-\frac{1}{R_2}\right]
\end{aligned}
$
Now we are going to arrange this equation in the desired as -
$
\text { So, put, } u=\infty \text { and } v=f
$
we get,
$
\begin{aligned}
& \frac{1}{f}=\left(\frac{\mu_2}{\mu_1}-1\right)\left[\frac{1}{R_1}-\frac{1}{R_2}\right] \\
& \frac{\mathbf{1}}{\mathbf{f}}=\left(\mu_{\text {relative }}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{\mathbf{R}_{\mathbf{1}}}-\frac{1}{\mathbf{R}_{\mathbf{2}}}\right)
\end{aligned}
$
Where,
$
\mu_{\text {relative }}=\frac{\mu_{\text {lens }}}{\mu_{\text {medium }}}
$
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