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Direct linkLevesque, L. – European Journal of Physics, 2009
Images formed from light rays refracting a spherical surface are often introduced in textbooks using the paraxial approximation. Incoming rays propagating from the object meeting the surface of a transparent medium at a given point for which the angle is larger than 15 degrees with respect to the normal are not described accurately from the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Optics, Computation, Experiments
