Monday, April 19, 2010

Plane & Curved Mirrors

Terrance Gibson ran the plane & curved mirrors lab, and found it to be in good order. Some comments:
The reflection – plane and curved mirrors is an experiment to better understand how rays are reflected by determining the focal length and radius of curvature of different types of mirrors. The setup of the experiment is very straightforward meaning easily to follow and not much equipment to use at all. However I prefer doing the experiment in a dark room to see the light rays better. I think if you try doing this lab with different color paper instead of white paper it might work better, you might not have to turn the lights off. But, all in all, this is a wonderful lab to continue doing to understand how rays are reflected, using a protractor, and ruler to obtain the angles of the rays.

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