Consider Refraction at Spherical Surfaces: Starting point for the development of lens equations Vast majority of quality lenses that are used today have segments containing spherical shapes. The aim is to use refraction at surfaces to simultaneously image a large number of object points which may emit at different wavelengths. (Point V (Vertex
sO = SV (object distance( si = VP (image distance( θi - Angle of incidence θt - Angle of refraction θr - Angle of reflection
The ray SA emitted from point S will strike the surface at A, refract towards the .normal, resulting in the ray AP in the second medium (n2( and strike the point P