PHYSICS 7E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Curved Mirror, Dioptre, Refraction

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PHYSICS 7E - Lecture 19 - Geometric Optics
Focal Point and Focal Length of a Convex Mirror
(a) Paraxial rays incident on a convex spherical mirror diverge from a virtual focal point
(b) Rays aimed at the virtual focal point are parallel to the axis after reflection
negative R/2f=
The image is always virtual, upright, and smaller
Image Formation by a Convex Mirror
1. Reflected parallel ray appears to come from focal point
2. Ray toward focal point reflects parallel to axis
3. As with concave mirror: Ray radial to center of curvature intersects the surface normally
and reflect along its original path
4. As with concave mirror: Ray to vertex reflects symmetrically around optic axis
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Physics 7e - lecture 19 - geometric optics. Focal point and focal length of a convex mirror. (a) paraxial rays incident on a convex spherical mirror diverge from a virtual focal point. (b) rays aimed at the virtual focal point are parallel to the axis after reflection. The image is always virtual, upright, and smaller. Height of the image formed by a spherical surface y y = s tan( )a s tan( ) b. Snb s n a = s+r s r n nb nb = r na + s s a. Light rays from an object at q refract as though they came from the image point q". R = nb = 0 na + s . Thin lenses are those whose thickness is small compared to their radius of curvature. They may be either converging (a) or diverging (b) Optic axis (passes through centers of curvature of both lens surfaces.

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