Diverging lens ray diagram

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A ray diagram of a diverging lens with an object beyond 2F; the rays spread out and their dashed extensions meet between the lens and F at a small, upright, virtual image — A diverging lens of focal length 10 cm with an object 20 cm away. The parallel ray spreads out as if from F, the ray heading for F′ leaves parallel, and the center ray goes straight on. Their dashed extensions meet between F and the lens, at the virtual, upright, smaller image, drawn dashed.

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Image distance: −6.7 cm, magnification: +0.33
Virtual, upright, diminished, on the same side as the object

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