We've been doing a bunch of these videos with these convex lenses where we drew parallel rays and rays that go through the focal point to figure out what the image of an object might be. But what I want to do in this video is actually come up with an algebraic relationship between the distance of the object from the convex lens, the distance of the image from the convex lens, usually on the other side, and the focal length. And the focal length. So let's see if we can do this. And just to save you the pain of having to watch me draw straight lines, I drew this ahead of time.
And so we can imagine this green thing right here is the object. This is the object. And these two little pink points right here are the focal points.
They're a focal length away. And I did what we always do. I drew one parallel ray from the tip of that arrow to the the actual convex lens, and then it gets refracted, so it goes through the focal point on the right-hand side and goes all the way over there.
And then I drew a ray that goes through the focal point on the left-hand side, and then when it gets refracted, it becomes parallel. And then it actually intersects with that previous ray right over here. And so this gives us a sense of what the image will look like. It's inverted.
It's real. In this case, it is larger. than the actual object.
What I want to do is come up with a relationship with these values, so let's see if we can label them here, and then just do a little bit of geometry and a little bit of algebra to figure out if there is an algebraic relationship right here. So the first number, the distance of the object, that's this distance from here to here, or we could just label it here, since this is already drawn for us. This is the distance of the object. This is the way we drew it.
This was the parallel light ray, but it Before it got refracted, it traveled the distance from the object to the actual lens. Now the distance from the image to the lens, that's this right over here. This is how far this parallel light ray had to travel.
So this is the distance from the image to the lens. And then we have the focal distance, the focal length. And that's just this distance right here.
This right here is our focal length. Or we could view it on this side as well. This right here is also our focal length. So I want to come up with some relationship.
And to do that, I'm going to draw some triangles here. So what we can do is, and the whole strategy, I'm going to keep looking for similar triangles and then try to see if I can find relationships or ratios that relate these three things to each other. So let me find some similar triangles. So the best thing I can think of to do is let me redraw this triangle over here. Let me just flip it over.
Let me just draw the same triangle on the right-hand side of this diagram. So if I were to draw the same triangle, it would look like this. It would look like this. And let me just be clear.
This is this triangle right over here. I just flipped it over. I just flipped it over. And so if we want to make sure we're keeping track of the same sides.
If this length right here is d sub 0 or d0, sometimes we could call it, or d0, whatever you want to call it, then this length up here is also going to be d0. And the reason why I wanted to do that is because now we can do something interesting. We can relate this triangle up here to this triangle down here, and actually we can see that they're going to be similar, and then we can relate And then we can get some ratios of sides. And then what we're going to do is try to show that this triangle over here is similar to this triangle over here. Get a couple more ratios.
And then we might be able to relate all of these things. So the first thing we have to prove to ourselves is that those triangles really are similar. So the first thing to realize, this angle right here is definitely the same thing as that angle right over there. They're sometimes called opposite angles or vertical angles. They're on the opposite side of lines that are intersecting.
So they're going to be equal. Now the next thing. And this comes out of the fact that both of these lines, this line is parallel to that line right over there.
And you could look at, I guess you could call it alternate interior angles, if you look at the angles game, or the parallel lines, or the transversal of a parallel lines from geometry. We know that this angle, since they're alternate interior angles, this angle is going to be the same value as this angle. Right? Because they're both, you could view this line right here as a transversal of two. Parallel lines, these are alternate interior angles, so they will be the same.
Now, we can make that exact same argument for this angle and this angle. And so what we see is this triangle up here has the same three angles as this triangle down here. So these two triangles are similar. These are both, this is really more of a review of geometry than optics, these are similar triangles. They're similar.
I don't have to write triangles. They're similar. And because they're similar, the ratios of corresponding sides are going to be the same. So d0 corresponds to this. They're both opposite this pink angle.
So the ratio of d0 to d1. Let me write this over here. So the ratio of d0. Let me write this a little bit neater.
The ratio of d0 to d1. So this is the ratio of corresponding sides. It's going to be the same thing.
And let me make some labels here. That's going to be the same thing as the ratio of this side right over here. This side right over here, I'll call that a.
It's opposite. It's opposite this magenta angle right over here. That's going to be the same thing as the ratio of that side to this side over here, to side b. And once again, we can keep track of it because side b is opposite the magenta angle on this bottom triangle. So that's how we know that this side, its corresponding side in the other similar triangle is that one.
They're both opposite the magenta angles. So we know d0 is to d1 as a is to b. is to b.
So that's interesting. We've been able to relate these two things to these kind of two arbitrary lengths. But we need to somehow connect those to the focal length. And to connect them to a focal length, what we might want to do is relate a and b. a sits on the same triangle as the focal length right over here.
So let's look at this triangle right over here. Let me put it in a better color. So let's look at this triangle right over here that I'm highlighting in green.
This triangle in green. And let's look at that in comparison to this triangle that I'm also highlighting. This triangle that I'm also highlighting in green. Now, the first thing I want to show you is that these are also similar triangles.
This angle right over here and this angle are going to be the same. They are opposite angles of intersecting lines. And then we can make a similar argument, alternate interior angles. So there's a A couple of arguments we could make.
One, you could see that this is a right angle right over here, this is a right angle. If two angles of two triangles are the same, the third angle also has to be the same. So we could also say that this thing, let me do this in another color, because I don't want to be repetitive too much with the colors. We can say that this thing is going to be the same thing as this thing.
Or another way you could have said it is you could have said, well, this line over here, which is kind of represented by the lens, or the lens that the line that is parallel to the lens or right along the lens, is parallel to the object right over there. And then you could make the same alternate interior argument there. But the other thing is just, look, I have two triangles. Two of the angles in those two triangles are the same. So the third angle has to be the same.
Now, since all three angles are the same, these are also both similar triangles. So we can do a similar thing. We can say a is to b. Remember, both a and b are opposite the 90-degree side.
They're both the hypotenuse. Of the similar triangle. So a is to b as, we could say, this base length right here.
And it got overwritten a little bit. But this base length right over here is f. That's our focal length. As f in this triangle is related to this length on this triangle.
They are both opposite that white angle. So as f is to this length right over here. Now what's this length?
So this whole distance is di. All the way over here. But this length is that whole distance minus the focal length. So this is di minus the focal length.
So a is to b as f is to di minus the focal length. And there you have it. We have a relationship between the distance of the object, the distance of the image, and the focal length.
And now we just have to do a little bit of algebra. If this is equal to this and this is equal to that, then this blue thing has to be equal to this magenta thing. And now we just have to do some algebra. So let's do that.
So we got d0, or d0 I guess we'd call it, to di is equal to the ratio of the focal length to the difference of the image distance minus the focal length. And here we just have to do some algebra. So just to simplify this, let's cross multiply it.
So if we multiply d0 times this thing over here, we get d0 di. I'm really just distributing it. Minus d0f. I'm just distributing this d0, just cross multiplying, which is really just the same thing as multiplying both sides by both denominators, or multiplying the denominators twice either way. That's all cross multiplying is.
That is going to be equal to di times f. And now we can add this term right over here to both sides of this equation. I'm just going to switch to a neutral color.
So we get d0 di is equal to, I'm just adding this to both sides, so when you add it to the left side it obviously cancels out, is equal to di f, this thing over here, plus d not f. And then let's see, we could factor out an f, a focal length, so we get d0 di is equal to f times di. Plus d0.
And then what can we do? We could divide both sides by f. So this will become over f.
This becomes over f. Essentially canceling it out. And then, I just want to skip too many steps, so let me just rewrite what we have here. So these cancel out. So we have d0 di over f is equal to di plus do.
And now let's divide both sides by d0 di. So 1 over d0 di. Divide this side by d0 di. Cancels out over here. And so we are left with, on the left-hand side, 1 over the focal length is equal to this thing over here.
And we can separate this thing out. This thing over here, this is the same thing. We just separate out the numerators.
The same thing is di over do di plus do over do di. But di over do di, the di's cancel out. We just have a 1. Here the do's cancel out.
You just have a 1. So this is equal to 1 over the distance of the object, and this is plus 1 over the distance of the image. So right from the get-go, this was a completely valid formula. We actually had achieved what we wanted.
But this is a neater formula. You don't have the d i's repeated and the f repeated. Right here, we have an algebraic relationship for a convex mirror that relates the focal length to the distance of the object and the distance of the image.
Anyway, I think that's it. That's pretty neat how it came out to be at least a pretty clean formula.