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Question
Differentiate between:
Short-sightedness and Long-sightedness.
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Solution
| Short-Sightedness | Long-Sightedness |
| (i) The inability of the eye lens to focus images of distant objects on the retina; so the images fall in front of the retina. | The inability of the eye lens to focus near object images on the retina; so the images fall beyond the retina. |
| (ii) It is corrected by using glasses of a concave lens. | It is corrected by using glasses of a convex lenses. |
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