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    "Make-up" mirrors are made using a concave mirror which enlarges the face. The distortion of images in these images also varies with the distance between the mirror and its image. Geometric optics focuses on the reflection, refraction, and actions of light rays.

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    "Make-up" mirrors are made using a concave mirror which enlarges the face. The distortion of images in these images also varies with the distance between the mirror and its image. Geometric optics focuses on the reflection, refraction, and actions of light rays.

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    "Make-up" mirrors are made using a concave mirror which enlarges the face. The distortion of images in these images also varies with the distance between the mirror and its image. Geometric optics focuses on the reflection, refraction, and actions of light rays.

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    Sachin Abraham, Cierra Lane,

    Miaoqiong Dong, and Dana Tran


    Ms. Akibola
    May 11, 2016
    Outline: Geometric Optics
    How are "make-up" mirrors made?

    "Make-up" mirrors are made using a concave mirror which enlarges the face and
    emphasizes any unwanted blemishes for the user's discretion. The distortion of images in
    these images also varies with the distance between the mirror and its image. The group
    of light rays from the mirror are reflected back to a single point (focal point).

    What does the subject of optics cover?

    Optics in physics is the science of light. The subject of optics is a very broad subject,
    ranging from the color spectrum, to mirrors, to lasers. Optics, however, focuses mainly
    on the important and familiar visible spectrum, the colors of the rainbow, with the
    wavelengths ranging near 400nm (purple) to near 700nm (red). For today, we will be
    focused on geometric optics, which focuses on the reflection, refraction, and actions of
    light rays.

    How do mirrors (plane and curved) work?

    "Plane mirror": (if the surface of a mirror is perfectly flat)


    o The image appears to be shifted from left to right.

    "Concave mirror": the light rays will appear to come from in from of the mirror, the
    reflection will be nearer to you, and reflections will appear bigger than they really are.

    "Convex mirror": light rays seem to come from behind the mirror and reflections will
    appear smaller and further away than they would in a plane mirror.

    If you are in the wilderness and you want to start a fire by reflecting sunlight off of a
    mirror, what shape should the mirror be, and why?

    In order to start a fire by reflecting sunlight off of a mirror, the shape of the mirror should
    be concave. This is because light rays are centered at the focal point of the concave
    mirror at a perpendicular angle. The photons in the light rays are travelling at high speeds

    and this speed, or the momentum, creates friction as these light rays increase. This
    friction generates heat and therefore by reflecting this heat allows someone to start a fire.

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