COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND FULL
SOLUTION
●● Cornea index of refraction.
Answer: 1.37
●● Tear Film, Vitreous index of refraction.
Answer: 1.33
●● Crystalline lens index of refraction.
Answer: 1.42
●● Optical Standard index of refraction.
Answer: 1.53
●● Crown Glass index of refraction.
Answer: 1.523
●● High index of refraction.
Answer: 1.74
,●● CR-39 index of refraction.
Answer: 1.49/1.50
●● Poly index of refraction.
Answer: 1.586
●● Air.
Answer: 1.00
●● How fast does light travel through air.
Answer: 186,000 mi/sec
●● MBS formula.
Answer: ED+2 (decentration)+2
●● Focal length formula.
Answer: 1/Dioptic Power power
●● Dioptic Power formula.
Answer: 1/Focal Length
,●● Antimetropia.
Answer: Rx with unlike signs in both eyes
●● Anisometropia.
Answer: Difference of 2 diopters btwn OD & OS
●● Anisiekonia.
Answer: When images from right and left eye are so different the brain
can not achieve fusion
●● What is the Radius of a 1 diopter curve?.
Answer: 530mm
●● Radius formula.
Answer: 530/Power = Radius
●● Power formula.
Answer: 530/Radius = Power
●● Vertical Decentration formula.
Answer: Seg.ht. - B/2
, ●● How much HORIZONTAL prism tolerance is allowed?.
Answer: 2/3 of a diopter
-or-
0.667
●● How much VERTICAL prism tolerance is allowed?.
Answer: 1/3 of a diopter
-or-
0.333
●● Base Curve tolerance.
Answer: +/-0.75
●● Sphere Tolerance up to 6.50.
Answer: +/- 0.13
●● Sphere Tolerance above 6.50.
Answer: +/- 2%
●● Cylinder Tolerance >1.50.
Answer: +/-2°