Vision defects (model experiment)

Function and Applications

This experiment allows a vivid demonstration of short-sightedness and long-sightedness compared to the normal vision of the human eye and of how such defects can be corrected.

Benefits

• Graphic demonstration expteriment
• Demonstration of the most frequent visual defects and their correction
• Easy to demonstrate
• Easy to understand

Tasks

Demonstrate how changes in eye anatomy result in defective vision and how these defects can be corrected

Learning objectives

• Emmetropia
• Short-sightedness (myopia)
• Far-sightednes (hyperopia)
• Correction of visual defects
• Retina