What is a virtual image?
Where the light from the object appears to be coming from a different place
What is a real image?
Where the light from an object comes together to form an image on a screen
Diverging lenses always produce a:
Virtual image
A converging lens causes rays of light to:
Move together at the principal focus
A diverging lens causes rays of light to:
Spread out
Why does a converging lens produce a real image?
Because the light rays all meet at the same point
Drawing a ray diagram tells us what three things about an image?
Whether it is magnified or diminished, upright or inverted, virtual or real