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What are defects of lens???? spherical abrasion and chromatic abration

What are defects of lens????


spherical abrasion and chromatic abration

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SAGAR SINGH - IIT DELHI
878 Points
13 years ago

Dear student,

Lens Defects

 
Chromatic aberration: Image of a white object is coloured and blurred because µ (hence f) of lens is different for different colours. This defect is called chromatic aberration.
 

µv > µR so fR > fV

 

Mathematically chromatic aberration = fR – fv = ωfy

 

ω = Dispersive power of lens.

 

fy = Focal length for mean colour √fRfv

Lens Defects
 
 

Removal: To remove this defect i.e. for Achromatism we use two or more lenses in contact in place of single lens.

 

Mathematically condition of Achromatism is : ω1/f1 + ω2/f2 = 0

 

or     ω1f2 = –ω2f1

 
Spherical aberration:

Inability of a lens to form the point image of a point object on the axis is called Spherical aberration.

 

In this defect all the rays passing through a lens are not focused at a single point and the image of a point object on the axis is blurred.

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