My understanding is flawed. I am having trouble comprehending how this would not tie into ray tracing. There is displacement of the objects when looking through the prism right? Would it be considered a virtual image since the rays only converge on that side? Does this explain away the...
Very interesting! I thought about that as well. Similar to the T-shirt analogy. How the letters place a perfect stamp on the mirror, and if we could see through the persons shirt it would have the same orientation. I like it. Does anyone else? Is anyone currently in a physics course where...
That is funny! There is a little resemblance. I took an online ray tracing optical course and you can compare a convex lens to a prism because the top half is basically the same shape. In the course it indicated the distance rule is positive for a real image and negative for a virtual image...
Thanks to the both of you. I was thrown for a loop by the variety of answers that I received from Professors. I am usually very good at checking my sources, but every now an then, my curiosity leads me down a road less traveled. One great source that I use for math is the Khan Academy. He is...
Thank you for your answer. The whole truth is that there is this man who has a strange website. At first glance he appears to be a crank but if you notice all of the answers from the professors you will see that he has a few valid points. His site is long and drawn out but if you skip to the...
There is a debate going on regarding this subject, and many different physics professors, who have a PhD in optical physics, are providing different answers. It looks like they are getting destroyed in the debate which is rather silly. I have been watching and I am very curious about the...