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Question
Draw a scientifically correct labelled diagram of a human eye and answer the questions based on it:
- Name the type of lens in the human eye.
- Name the screen at which the maximum amount of incident light is refracted?
- State the nature of the image formed of the object on the screen inside the eye.
Solution
- The human eye's lens is a transparent, crystalline double convex lens.
- Maximum amount of incident light is refracted inside the eye at the outer surface of the cornea.
- The image of the object created on the inside screen of the eye is real and inverted.
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