Advanced Placement • College • High School / Physics

Spherical Mirror Reflection

Students use an optics light source, optics track, and half screen to measure the image and object distances associated with the real image formed by a concave spherical mirror and then use principles of reflection and the spherical mirror equation to determine the mirror’s radius of curvature.

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	05_AP2_Spherical_Mirror_Reflection_GI.docx	210.63 KB
	05_AP2_Spherical_Mirror_Reflection_SD.docx	207.39 KB
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	05_AP2_Spherical_Mirror_Reflection_S_GSlide.pdf	29.68 KB

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Standards Correlations

IB Topics	AP Topics
C.1	6.E.4.1; 6.E.4.2

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