Reflection
Mirrors
Types of Mirrors
Types of Mirrors
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Angle of incidence = angle of reflection
What is the law of reflection?
100
A flat smooth surface from which light is reflected by specular reflection.
What is plane mirror?
100
A reflective surface, the edges of which curve toward the observer.
What is a concave mirror?
100
A reflective surface with edges that curve away from the observer.
What is a convex mirror?
100
Image height = object height
What is plane-mirror height?
200
The scattering of light off a rough surface.
What is diffuse reflection?
200
A type of image formed by diverging light rays.
What is virtual image?
200
The straight line perpendicular to the surface of the mirror that divides the mirror in half.
What is the principal axis?
200
An effect that makes an image look fuzzy, not sharp.
What is spherical aberration?
200
The "line" that equally separates angle of incidence and angle of reflection.
What is the normal?
300
When parallel light rays are reflected in parallel.
What is specular reflection?
300
A source of light rays that are to be reflected by a mirrored surface.
What is an object?
300
The point where incident light rays that are parallel to the principal axis converge after reflecting from the mirror.
What is focal point?
300
The reciprocal of the focal length of a spherical mirror is equal to the sum of the reciprocals of the image position and the object position.
What is the mirror equation?
300
The only rays that are close to and almost parallel with the principal axis are used to form an image.
What is paraxial ray approximation?
400
The kind of reflection that results in the formation of images that appear to be behind plane mirrors.
What is specular reflection?
400
The combination of the image points produced by reflected light rays forms this.
What is an image?
400
The position of the focal point with respect to the mirror along the principal axis and can be expressed as f=r/2.
What is focal length?
400
How much larger or smaller the image is relative to the object.
What is magnification?
400
A French scientist who developed a method of coating glass with silver.
Who is Jean Foucault?
500
Not able to see through.
What is opaque?
500
When the image position is equal to the negative of the object position it is called...
What is plane-mirror image position?
500
An image that is formed by the converging of light rays.
What is a real image?
500
A reflection that is oriented as you are, and it matches your size.
What is mirror image?
500
A mirror that focuses all parallel rays at a point.
What is a parabolic mirror?
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