Ray Diagram For Concave Mirrors

Question 4 write the applications of concave mirror. Move the object the candle with your mouse to explore how the location and the size of the image change with the position of the object.

Ray Tracing Convex Concave Mirrors Video Lesson Transcript

A spherical mirror is a part of a spherical reflecting surface.

Ray diagram for concave mirrors. Change to convex mirror. Most commonly used mirrors are plane mirrors. Move object outside focal length.

In this lesson we will see a similar method for constructing ray diagrams for convex mirrors. Guidelines for rays falling on the concave and convex mirrors. The method for drawing ray diagrams for concave mirror is described below.

Step by step method for drawing ray diagrams. Ray diagrams for concave mirrors were drawn in lesson 3. Yet the same method works for drawing a ray diagram for any object location.

Can they produce images too. There are two types of spherical mirrors convex mirror and concave mirror. Question 5 where should an object be placed in front of a concave mirror so as to obtain image between f and c.

Ray diagrams for mirrors. Ray diagrams concave mirrors. When a ray parallel to principle axis strikes concave or convex mirrors the reflected ray passes through the focus on the principle axis.

Ray diagram for convex and concave mirror a mirror is a part of a smooth and highly polished reflecting surface. This interactive animation shows that indeed a concave mirror does produce an image of an object in front of it. A ray diagram is a tool that is used to determine the location size orientation and type of image formed by a mirror.

Question 6 where should an object be placed in front of a concave mirror so as to obtain image beyond c. What type of image is formed when the object is located exactly one focal length from a concave mirror. Of course a ray diagram is always one tool to help find the answer to such a question.

What about concave mirrors. Images formed by concave mirror using ray diagram. The method is applied to the task of drawing a ray diagram for an object located beyond the center of curvature c of a concave mirror.

If an object is placed inside the focal length of a concave mirror and enlarged virtual and erect image will be formed behind the mirror. The cartesian sign convention is used here. However when a ray diagram is used for this case an immediate difficulty is encountered.

When a ray strikes concave or convex mirrors obliquely at its pole it is reflected obliquely.

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