Melinda Lopez 06/25/2013

Lab 1 For the first part of the lab a convex lens of 100 mm focal length was used along with a slide with an image length of 5 mm, and a desk lamp to illuminate the image of the slide onto the lens. The focal length of the lens was reaffirmed by varying the distance of the lens from the object and varying the note card that received the image until it came into focus. Thus the distance from the slide (object) was measured to the lens and then the lens to the notecard, the image. The measurements posted below and the thin lens equation reaffirms that the lens has a focal length of 100mm.

Object Distance (cm) 13.5 12.5 11.5

Image Distance (cm) 39.5 46.5 81.5

Focal Length (cm) 10.06 9.85 10.08

The magnification of the image was also determined by using fix length line on the slide of 5 mm and the resulting image was measured. The object and image distance were the same as above. The measurements are shown below with the magnification :

Object Length (mm) 5 5 5

Image Length (mm) 15.1 19 37

Magnification (I/O) 3.02 3.8 9.4

The magnification was reaffirmed by taking the ratio of the object distance to the image distance as shown above. In the second part of the lab, two planar convex lens of 100 mm and 200 mm focal length were used to create a keplerian telescope. The two flat sides of the lenses faced one another, with the diode laser beam entering the curve side of one and exiting the curve side of the other. The two lasers were place 300 mm apart to account for the focal length. The notecard where the laser beam was imaged was placed at different positions and the resulting beam diameter was measured to confirm that the beam was collimated. The results are shown below:

Lens 2 to Image distance (cm) 5 162.56

Diameter (mm) 9.35 9.39

The two diameters are approximately the same, thus the diode laser beam was collimated. A galilean telescope was built using a 100 mm focal length convex lens and a -25 mm focal length concave lens and 75 mm apart respectively. The resulting beam was a bit more difficult to collimated but the resulting diameter measurements were taken from the best alignment of the two lenses and the diode laser beam as shown below:

Lens 2 to Image distance (cm) 20 157.48

Diameter (mm) 3.17 4.78

The final part of the lab is what took the longest to complete since several different setups were used to image the diffraction grating onto the CCD camera. Ultimately a lens of 100 mm focus length was set 200 mm from the CCD camera and lens 2 of 25.4 mm was placed

at 44.5 mm with the diffraction grating at 500 mm from lens 2. The actual length of the grating letting the light throuh was 12 mm and on the screen was measured to be 155 mm with a ratio of 17 cm to 640 pixels on the screen. Thus the resulting pixel size of the CCD camera was calculated to be 0.206 m/pixel which was somewhat close to the given 5.6 m/pixel.