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What are the two most common defects of vision (or defects of the eye)? How are they corrected?

Important Questions on The Human Eye and The Colourful World

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Differentiate between myopia and hypermetropia. What type of spectacles should be worn by a person having the defects of myopia as well as hypermetropia? How does it help?
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Name the defect of vision which can be corrected by a converging lens. Show clearly by a ray diagram how the lens corrects the defect.
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Name the defect of vision which can be corrected by a diverging lens. Show clearly by a ray diagram how the lens corrects the defect.
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Explain with the help of labelled ray diagram, the defect of vision called myopia and how it is corrected by a lens.
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Explain with the help of labelled ray-diagram, the defect of vision called hypermetropia, and how it is corrected by a lens.
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A person suffering from eye-defect myopia (short-sightedness) can see clearly only up to a distance of 2 m. What is the nature and power of the lens required to rectify this defect?
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The near point of a person suffering from hypermetropia is at 50 cm from his eye. What is the nature and power of the lens needed to correct this defect? (Assume that the near point of the normal eye is 25 cm).
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A person needs a lens of power, -5.5 D for correcting his distant vision. For correcting his near vision, he needs a lens of power, +1.5 D. What is the focal length of the lens required for correcting distant vision.