Thin Lens Equation – What’s plus, what’s minus? Posted on August 19, 2013 by Barry Posted in Physics, Waves Tagged geometric optics, lens, x^-1 button (video) Any of the three quantities in the Thin Lens Equation can be either positive or negative, and remembering which is which is not so easy. But if you have a basic understanding of how lenses work, you can deduce what’s positive and negative…