What shape are your eye-lenses:(a) when you look at your hand?(b) when you look at a distant tree?


(a) The shape of our eye lenses becomes thick when we look at our hand.

This is because, when we look at a nearby object, the eye lens becomes thick or more convex and the converging power becomes large. As the converging power increases, the thick eye-lens can converge the diverging light rays coming from the nearby object (our hand) to form an image on the retina of the eye.


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(b)  The shape of our eye lenses becomes thin when we look at a distant tree.

This is because, when we look at a distant object (at infinity), the eye lens becomes thin or less convex and the converging power becomes small. As converging power decreases, the thin eye-lens is sufficient to converge the parallel light rays coming from the distant object (the tree) to form an image on the retina of the eye. 


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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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