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Introduction:

This course introduces Ray Tracing, an element of Geometrical Optics. The course will begin by reviewing some basic terms, and then will show how the lens drawings that you are already familiar with translate to specific situations of object-lens relationships. The major portion in this course will cover how to diagram and calculate image size, orientation, and placement for single thin lenses.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this course the participant should be able to: define basic terms used in ray tracing; describe the action of a plus or minus lens on specific incident rays; diagram the position of the image formed by a thin converging or diverging lens; calculate the position, magnification, and size of the image formed by a thin converging or diverging lens; describe the meaning of specific attributes of the image distance, magnification, and size; answer general questions about thin lenses and the images that they form.