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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Standards Correlations
IB Topics | AP Topics |
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C.1 | 6.E.4.1; 6.E.4.2 |
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Spherical Mirror Reflection - Distance Learning Lab
Use principles of reflection and the spherical mirror equation to determine a mirror’s radius of curvature based on the provided measurements of the image...