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The Reflection of Light: Mirrors

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Wave fronts   Surfaces that are through all points of the wave that are in the same phase of motion  
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Rays   Radial lines pointing outward from the source and perpendicular to the wave fronts  
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Plane Waves   Waves whose wave fronts are flat surfaces  
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Rays are_____ to wave fronts; therefore, rays for the plane wave are ________ to each other   Perpindicular; parallel  
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Angle of Incidence   Angle that the incident rays make with respect to the normal  
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Normal   Line drawn perpindicular to the surface at the point of incidence  
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Angle of Reflection   Angle that the reflected ray makes with the normal  
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Angle of Reflection is _______ to Angle of Incidence   Equal  
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Specular Reflection   Reflected light rays are parallel to each other when parallel light rays strike a smooth surface  
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Diffuse Reflection   Reflected light rays point in various directions when light rays strike an irregular suface  
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real image   light rays actually emanate from the image  
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vitrual   None of the light rays actuall emanate from the image  
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3 properties of a plane mirror when you are looking at yourself in the mirror   Image is upright, same size as you are, and located as far behind the mirror as you are in front of it  
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Concave   Converging mirror- Inside surface of the mirror is polished  
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Converging Mirror   Concave Mirror  
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Convex Mirror   Diverging Mirror- outside surface of mirror is polished  
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Diverging Mirror   Convex Mirror  
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Principal Axis   Straight Line drawn through C (center of curvature)and the midpoint of the mirror  
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Image point   point where rays are near the principal axis and cross it a common point after reflection. The rays continue to diverge from this point as if there were an onbject there The image is a real image.  
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focal point   An image is infinitely far from the mirror, making the rays parallel to the principal axis as they approach the mirror, they reflect from the mirror and pass through an image point which in this special case is called a focal point  
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focal length   distance between focal point and middle of the mirror  
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focal length formula   f= 1/2R  
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paraaxial rays   rays that lie close to the principal axis  
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spherical abberation   the fact that a spherical does not bring all rays parallel to the principal axis  
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Mirror Equation for Concave Mirror   1/f= 1/di+1/do (di can be negative if it is a vrtual image- this can happen when an object is between the focal point and the mirror  
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Magnification equation for Concave Mirror   Ratio of the image height to the object height  
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Magnif equa for Concave Mirror   m= hi/ho = -di/do  
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Sign for focal length in a concave mirror   +  
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gth in a convex mirror   -  
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If Object is in front of the mirror use a _____ sign   Positive. It is a real object  
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If Object is behind the mirror use a _____ sign   Negative. It is a virtual object  
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Image distance is _____ if the image is in front of the mirror   Positive. It is a real image  
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Image distance is _____ if the image is behind of the mirror   Negative. It is a virtual image  
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If image is upright with respect to the object the magnification is ___________   positive  
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If image is inverted with respect to the obect magnification is _______   negative  
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