Question

If you tried to use a diverging lens as a magnifier by placing the object at the focal point, what type of image would be produced? Upright and larger than the object Inverted and larger than the object Inverted and smaller than the object Upright and smaller than the object

Answer 1

Upright and smaller than the object

Step-by-step explanation:

Diverging lens as the name suggests that the rays diverge after the refraction and do not meet in reality. A concave lens is called diverging lens. When there is refraction of light through a concave lens then the light bends away from the principal axis and hence never meet in reality but on tracing the rays backwards the rays appear to meet leading to the formation of a virtual image, which is erect and smaller than the object for an object placed at the focus of the lens.

Similar image is formed for any case when the object is between optical center and infinity.