Lens Makers formula is valid only for
A) paraxial rays and thin lens
C) marginal rays and thin lens
B) paraxial rays and thick lens
D) marginal rays and thick lens
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Answer:
A lens with spherical surfaces (i.e. surfaces that are a segment of a sphere) does not focus all parallel light rays onto a single point. Instead there is a focal surface called a caustic. This causes spherical aberation.
As long as the lens curvature is small, i.e. the ray is near to the optical axis (paraxial rays), the aberation is small and we approximate the caustic by a single point. However far from the axis the aberation is significant and the rays come to a focus at a different point.
As far as I know there is no simply way to show this. You'd need to sit down and calculate the path for the light ray as a function of distance from the optical axis, which isn't that difficult but is tedious.
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