Boohoo, this will be my last physics post before tomorrow’s AP exam! Noooo! It’s already tomorrow! Well anyway, I went outside today and took off my glasses to admire the beautiful sunshine, and attempted to put the solar energy to use in burning some chlorophyll-filled hydrocarbons… but instead the lens made a dark spot instead of converging the light at the focus. No matter how far the lens was from the ground, the dark spot remained. And that is the nature of diverging lenses, which are used to correct nearsighted vision. In nearsightedness, the eye can focus on nearby, but not distant objects because the eye’s lens is too contracted, forming the image in front of the retina instead of on the retina. To correct this, a diverging diverges the light rays entering the eye so that when they go through the eye’s lens, the refracted rays meet at the retina to form an image. Yay for diverging lenses! But I think studying for the AP exam and taking the final tests of the year have made my eyes more nearsighted than before…I must see the opthamologist sometime soon. Good luck everyone!