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Lenses and Mirror

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Mirrors   Shiny metallic surfaces that reflect an image  
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Ray   A straight line in which light travels  
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Medium   Any substance through which light travels for example water, air, gasses, liquids, synthetic material  
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Refraction   The bending of light rays as the light travels from one medium to another  
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Lenses   Shiny, clean, metallic sufaces surfaces that refract light  
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Mirrors   reflect the image that appears in front of it  
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Mirror   Reflects light because it is a shiny, metallic surface and flat  
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Law of Reflection   A ray of light will reflect off an shiney, flat surface at the same angle as the ray hits the surface  
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Law of Reflection   An object standing in front of a mirror its reflection will appear to be exactly far behind the reflective surface as the object in front of the mirror  
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Two hinge mirrors touch   As the angle between the two mirrors gets smaller the reflecting increases because the more reflections increase the each reflection is making a reflection  
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Curved mirrors   Obey the law of reflection just as flat mirrors do  
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Imaged produced by curved mirror   Different from the one produced by a flat mirror because of the shape of the mirror  
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Convex mirror   Type of curved mirror that projects image outward  
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Concave mirror   The image is projected inward, downward or to center  
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Converge   When light rays meet  
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Divergence   When light rays spread apart  
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