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Unit 8: Waves

3 – Reflection

When a wave travels into a new medium some is


______________ ___________.
The amount of reflection depends on…

Reflective Surface
Light reflected from a plane (_______) mirror follows Why can you not see your reflection in all flat surfaces?
the Law of Reflection

These angles are measured from the ____________ a


line _____________ to the mirror

Ray Diagrams When drawing ray diagrams we draw two rays of light
When you look at your image in a plane mirror it coming from the object, reflecting of and heading to the
is: observer.

 The same _________ behind the mirror as
you are in front of it.
 _____ ______ __ and __________
__________.
 Also, the reflected light has the same
speed, wavelength and frequency as the
incident light.

Curved Mirrors: Since the surface is curved the normal is different at each point.
Concave:

Convex:

Concave Mirrors: Convex Mirrors:


Principle Axis:
Centre of Curvature ( ):
Focal Point ( ):
Focal length ( ):
Consider the situation where an object is beyond the center of curvature:
Remember:

Now consider if the object were between C and F

Finally consider the case where the object is within the focal point, F.

Convex Mirror:

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