The rules for drawing rays
Integrated Science · Grade 9 · about 40 minutes
Three rules; any two of them locate the image.
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- Types of curved mirror
- Pole, centre of curvature and aperture
- Principal focus, focal length and focal plane
- The relationship r = 2f
- The rules for drawing rays
- Object at infinity
- Object beyond C
- Object at C
- Object between C and F
- Object at F
- Object between F and P
- The concave mirror summary
- Images in a convex mirror
- Field of view
- Concave and convex compared
- Uses of concave mirrors
- Uses of convex mirrors
- Curved mirrors: the whole sub-strand