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Activity: The telescope

Let's look deeper... into space. Introducing: the simple refracting telescope. After this activity you will understand how the combination of lenses brings about angular magnification, be able to draw a ray diagram for a telescope in normal adjustment, have derived an equation for angular magnification and have investigated angular magnification experimentally. There is also some mention of the reflecting telescope...

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