Mirrors and Reflection

Intro Physics took their heat, temperature and phase change exam today and move on tomorrow to vibrations and waves.

Honors Physics, tiny class that it was, completed their curved mirrors lab and Physics D started the same lab during the long block. Both concave and convex mirrors were examined and patterns of image formation by these mirrors were investigated. Concave can make both real and virtual images and we looked at how the position of the object with respect to the mirror affected the properties of the real image that was formed. Convex can only make virtual images and we used the parallax method to determine image location. Tomorrow, D Block will complete the lab and Honors Physics will discuss the lab as part of the discussion about mirrors and the mirror equation.

Physics F discussed their mirrors lab and looked at how the data collected in lab related to the mirror equation we are using in class. We then took time to begin discussing the properties of concave mirrors and how those mirrors made images. We'll continue with this tomorrow and add on convex lenses, along with the use of ray diagrams to determine image position and properties.