Convex Lens Vs. Concave Lens

A spherical lens is an optical element made of a transparent substance with a spherical part of its surface. There are six types of lenses. They play an important role in the fields of astronomy, military, transportation, medicine, and art. A lens is a refracting mirror whose refractive surface is two spheres, or a sphere with one plane of transparency. It has a real image or a virtual image. Lenses can generally be divided into two categories: convex lenses and concave lenses. The central part is thicker than the edge part is called convex lens, there are biconvex, plano-convex, concave-convex three; the central part is thinner than the edge part is called concave lens, there are biconcave, plano-concave, convex-concave three.

A convex lens has the effect of converging light, so it is also called a "converging lens" or a "positive lens" (for nearsightedness and presbyopia). Convex lenses are used for magnifying glasses, glasses for presbyopes and farsighted people, cameras, movie projectors, microscopes, and the main axis of telescopes.

Concave lenses are also known as negative spherical lenses, the center of the lens is thin and the periphery is thick and concave, so they are also called concave lenses. Concave lenses have a diverging effect on light. Parallel light through the concave spherical lens deflection, light divergence, become divergent light, it is impossible to form a real focal point, along the reverse extension of the divergent light, in the same side of the projected light intersection at the F point, the formation of a virtual focal point. The image formed by a concave lens is always a smaller, upright, virtual image of the object, and concave lenses are mainly used to correct myopia. Concave lenses have the effect of dispersing light, so they are also called "dispersing lenses" and "negative lenses" (which can be used for nearsighted glasses).

Differences

Different structure

convex lenses are composed of transparent mirrors with two sides ground into a spherical surface.

Concave mirror is composed of a concave side and the other side of the opaque mirror body

Different imaging properties

convex lens is refractive imaging into the image can be positive, inverted; virtual, real; put, shrink. The role of light concentration

Concave mirror is a reflection imaging can be inverted into a reduced or magnified real image, can also be orthogonal magnification of the virtual image. The role of light diffusion lens (including convex lenses) is to make the light through, using the light folded after the image of the instrument, the light obeys the law of refraction.

Different effects on light

Convex lenses mainly play a converging role on light

Concave lenses mainly play a role in light divergence

Different image formation

A convex lens can form an orthogonal magnified virtual image, an inverted magnified real image, an inverted equal-sized real image, and an inverted reduced real image.

A concave lens can only form an orthogonal reduced virtual image

Different uses

Convex lens is used for farsighted glasses, convex lens can be used for magnifying glasses, presbyopia and farsighted people wearing glasses, cameras, movie projectors, slide projectors, microscopes, telescopes lens.

Concave lenses are used for near-sighted glasses.

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