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Curved Mirrors1 - the concave mirror

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Uploaded by on Sep 3, 2009

This vid-clip explains how to construct ray diagrams for concave mirrors - it is the first in a series of vid-clips on currved mirrors. If you want to see the web page it is illustrating go to http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/topics/light/concave_mirror.htm

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  • To get the effect you require you would have to use a point source of light in a darkened room and have the light source move along the principle axis.

  • if real images formed by concave mirrors are located on front of the mirror, why do we see the image on the mirror itself, as if it were located behind the mirror?

  • @TheDevilvivek When you look into a concave mirror you are seeing an image of the points of many objects at many distances - this is true even for a even a small object - in a darkened room. The mirror ray diagram is for a 'point' on an object close to the principal axis. You are mistakenly thinking that it is for all points.

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  • thank u cyberphysics it was helpful

  • when i put my head beyond c (concave mirror) i saw inverted and diminished image behind the mirror but in concave mirror when the object is placed beyond c image is formed between centre of curvature and focus,please help me out

  • @TheDevilvivek i am saying that why you say centre of hollow glass sphere from which mirror was chopped

  • @TheDevilvivek Yes - the distance from the mirror to C is the radius of the ball the mirror is cut from - therefore if the ball is bigger the distance VC (distance from the mirror to point C) will be bigger.

  • @Cyberphysics if i take two spherical ball, one big and one small ,if a chop 2 cm from the big mirror and 2 cm from small mirror they will have different centre of curvature ,yes or not.

  • @TheDevilvivek You would not make a concave mirror in that way - you would always have a small section of the sphere... not even a hemisphere.

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