Wavefront and Lenses – Rankers Physics
Topic: Wave Optics
Subtopic: Huygen's Principal

Wavefront and Lenses

If a plane wave front is incident on a convex lens then the emerging wavefront will be
Plane
Spherical
Parabolic
Hyperbolic

Solution:

A convex lens focuses parallel rays (plane wavefront) to a single point, meaning the emerging wavefront converges as a spherical wavefront.

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