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Process Essay: Seeing Through The Lens

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Seeing Through the Lens

Physics Around Campus

Haley Sieverding

Physics 102
Spring 2016 To the right is a photograph looking through one of my contact lenses. Since it is hard to depict what I see without them in, this photo goes to show what it looks like through the lens compared to what my camera sees with “perfect vision.” Through the lens you can see a tree clearly in the distance which is normally a blurry green and brown tree like shape through my bare eyes. This photo was taken out of my window in the foyer of my house in the Logan neighborhood. When someone has nearsightedness, or myopia, their eye is too long depthwise. This causes the image to focus in front of the retina instead of at the retina causing a blurry image when the object is far away. Using contact lenses causes the light to refract before hitting the eye lens to refract again. The lens is used to refract the light in such a way that when the light is refracted by the eye, the image will be formed at the retina. Since myopia is when the eye’s depth is longer than usual, the focal lenth is shorter. When the focal length is shorter, the image is formed in front of the retina and what the person sees is a blurry image as shown in the top …show more content…

When the lenses are molded, the central anterior curvature of the lens determines the “correct refractive change” so the patient can see clearly (“Contact Lens”). There are many other curves of the lens that are considered when finishing the lens itself. Now contact lenses are used as an accesory with colored contacts as well as a way to correct vision. Eventually, I would like to see some electronic contact lenses that could allow you to zoom in and do other things. Contact lenses have made an impact on my life and many others by allowing convenient eyesight correction. We will see what the future holds for the small

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