• Redjard
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    39 months ago

    The easy to show part was the second sentence of my comment.

    This is really useful physics trivia, because the basic truth is easy to show from a simple law, but the detailed explanations go quite in-depth.

    With lenses, you trade bewteen angular accuracy and light density.

    For a challenge, try it with LEDs. Where do you find the source “temperature”, you can get from focusing an LEDs light?

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      That’s an intriguing question. My first guess would be it corresponds to the diode’s band gap?