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Apoxyus
Oct25-03, 10:46 AM
hey can someone give me the formulas and resoning behind finding focal length, magnitude of radius curvature, and other optic stuff. Thank you.

Chi Meson
Oct25-03, 09:41 PM
You are looking for the "lens makers' equation." Here's one site: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/components/characteristicrays/

you could do a search for this equztion to find dozens of other sites, but this one has a java applet tutorial. Might be good, I didn't go through it.

Apoxyus
Oct25-03, 10:08 PM
Thanks