Saturday 6 February 2016

Concave Mirror Vs Convex Mirror

What is a Mirror

A mirror is most often made with a highly polished surface of a metal, placed behind a glass. A mirror works by reflecting light that falls on it according to the law of reflection.

CONVEX MIRROR

Convex- smaller image
Concave- magnified image

Simple Ray Diagram

• Tool used to determine
o location
o size
o orientation

o type of image formed
Real or Virtual

•

• Straight/

Plane mirror

• Extended

Reflected
Rays make
up image

• Behind the
mirror

Simple Ray Diagram for Concave
Mirrors

Whether the image is upside-down or rightside up
depends of the distance you are f...

Simple Ray Diagram for Convex
Mirrors

CONCAVE MIRROR

HINT : CONCAVE,It looks like a cave

Concave

• Reflection
• Curved inward reflective surface
• Used to magnify
• Produces Real and Virtual Images
o depend on ...

Convex

Convex

• Reflection
• Image is small or reduced in size
• Image is upright
• Image is located behind the convex
mirror

•...

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