PHY13LA3baquiran
PLANE AND SPHERICAL MIRRORS
Velorie D. Baquiran, Phy13L/A3 veldbaquiran@gmail.com Abstract
The main theme or idea for this study circles around optics, more particularly on the device such as the mirror. Since light has a dual nature, it can travel both like a particle and like that of a wave. As the light travels from a person’s eyes, images can be form as it is reflected by the mirror. Properties such as reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction is identified in this study.
Mirrors being specifically used as an optical instrument, gathers light and forms images, and is therefore the most common apparatus used in observing the porperties light particels and waves have. Similarly, we see an image of an object because light from the object reflects off a mirror and travel to our eyes as we sight at the image location of the object. From these two basic premises, we have defined the image location as the location in space where light appears to diverge from. Ray diagrams have been valuable tool for determining the path taken by light from the object to the mirror to our eyes.
Key words: reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, mirrors
Introduction
One of the most widly and commonly used apparatus in observing light properties were the mirrors. Mirrors gather light and therefore forms images because it works a wider wavelength range that are associated with lenses. When a ray of light strikes a plane mirror, the light ray reflects off the mirror. Reflection, as it is said in books and referring to studies done, involves a change in direction of the light ray. The convention used to express the direction of a light ray is to indicate the angle, which the light ray makes with a normal line drawn to the surface of the mirror. The angle of incidence is the angle between this normal line and the incident ray; the angle of reflection is the angle between this normal line and the reflected ray.
Light can either travel like a wave or a particle. With
Velorie D. Baquiran, Phy13L/A3 veldbaquiran@gmail.com Abstract
The main theme or idea for this study circles around optics, more particularly on the device such as the mirror. Since light has a dual nature, it can travel both like a particle and like that of a wave. As the light travels from a person’s eyes, images can be form as it is reflected by the mirror. Properties such as reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction is identified in this study.
Mirrors being specifically used as an optical instrument, gathers light and forms images, and is therefore the most common apparatus used in observing the porperties light particels and waves have. Similarly, we see an image of an object because light from the object reflects off a mirror and travel to our eyes as we sight at the image location of the object. From these two basic premises, we have defined the image location as the location in space where light appears to diverge from. Ray diagrams have been valuable tool for determining the path taken by light from the object to the mirror to our eyes.
Key words: reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, mirrors
Introduction
One of the most widly and commonly used apparatus in observing light properties were the mirrors. Mirrors gather light and therefore forms images because it works a wider wavelength range that are associated with lenses. When a ray of light strikes a plane mirror, the light ray reflects off the mirror. Reflection, as it is said in books and referring to studies done, involves a change in direction of the light ray. The convention used to express the direction of a light ray is to indicate the angle, which the light ray makes with a normal line drawn to the surface of the mirror. The angle of incidence is the angle between this normal line and the incident ray; the angle of reflection is the angle between this normal line and the reflected ray.
Light can either travel like a wave or a particle. With
References: Book/Manual: [1] Young and Freedman, University Physics with Modern Physics. 247, 12th Ed., Pearson Education Inc, 2012 [2] Physics 13L Laboratory Manual, Mapúa Institute of Technology URL: [3] hyperhttp://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/refln/Lesson-4/Reflection-and-ImageFormation-for-Convex-Mirrors [4] http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refln/u13l2a.cfm [5] http://ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu/~dow/lectures/phy102/ch25_print.pdf 7