Diverging lens produces which type of image?

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Diverging lens produces which type of image?

Explanation:
When light passes through a diverging (concave) lens, the rays spread apart after refraction. If you extend those refracted rays backward, they appear to come from a point on the same side of the lens as the object. Because the rays don’t actually converge in that region, the image is virtual. This type of lens always produces a virtual image, and it is upright and smaller than the object, located on the same side as the object. Real images require rays to converge, which a diverging lens cannot do, so a real image cannot form here.

When light passes through a diverging (concave) lens, the rays spread apart after refraction. If you extend those refracted rays backward, they appear to come from a point on the same side of the lens as the object. Because the rays don’t actually converge in that region, the image is virtual. This type of lens always produces a virtual image, and it is upright and smaller than the object, located on the same side as the object. Real images require rays to converge, which a diverging lens cannot do, so a real image cannot form here.

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