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What is a convex lens?

What is a convex lens? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (optics) A lens having at least one convex surface, such that light passing through it may be brought to a focus.
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We saw in the last section that a real image is formed by light moving through a convex lens.
A double convex lens with a focal length of 50 cm is fixed in a PVC pipe about 60 cm long.
Photograph by Allan Mills of a rectangular grid of lines on a white board, taken using a simple convex lens.
The bull's-eye lantern has a convex lens which concentrates the light and allows it to be thrown in the shape of a diverging cone.
Powerful images captured through a convex lens are frozen in time.
This will give a negative focal length for a convex lens of air inside water.

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