Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Concave and Convex Mirrors

The goal for this experiment was to observe the characteristics of these two types of mirrors
first for convex mirrors through observation we deduced that the images are smaller and will get bigger as we get closer to the mirror. also as we get further from surface of the mirror images become smaller fast (depending on the radius of curvature of the mirror) until they pass the focal point which means they are at infiniti relative to the mirror. Images are also upright.


As for the concave mirrors images depending on the position of the object they are reflecting, vary. For close distances we see upright and virtual. But as we get further we lose the image and we dont see the image in the mirror which means the image is now real and forming in front of the mirror.


and the rule 1/p + 1/q = 1/f applies to both mirrors where p is the object distance and q is the image distance and f is the focal point.

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