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    This document describes a procedure for measuring the focal length of a concave mirror. The experiment involves positioning a ray box at varying object distances from the mirror and finding the corresponding image distances that produce a sharp focus on a screen. The data is plotted on a graph of 1/u versus 1/v to determine the focal length from the slope. The measured focal length was 17.9 cm, which was verified using the spherical mirror formula. Sources of error and ways to improve the experiment are also discussed.

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    This document describes a procedure for measuring the focal length of a concave mirror. The experiment involves positioning a ray box at varying object distances from the mirror and finding the corresponding image distances that produce a sharp focus on a screen. The data is plotted on a graph of 1/u versus 1/v to determine the focal length from the slope. The measured focal length was 17.9 cm, which was verified using the spherical mirror formula. Sources of error and ways to improve the experiment are also discussed.

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    This document describes a procedure for measuring the focal length of a concave mirror. The experiment involves positioning a ray box at varying object distances from the mirror and finding the corresponding image distances that produce a sharp focus on a screen. The data is plotted on a graph of 1/u versus 1/v to determine the focal length from the slope. The measured focal length was 17.9 cm, which was verified using the spherical mirror formula. Sources of error and ways to improve the experiment are also discussed.

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    To Measure The Focal Length of A Concave Mirror: Diagram

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    This document describes a procedure for measuring the focal length of a concave mirror. The experiment involves positioning a ray box at varying object distances from the mirror and finding the corresponding image distances that produce a sharp focus on a screen. The data is plotted on a graph of 1/u versus 1/v to determine the focal length from the slope. The measured focal length was 17.9 cm, which was verified using the spherical mirror formula. Sources of error and ways to improve the experiment are also discussed.

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    To Measure the Focal Length of a Concave Mirror

    Diagram

    Apparatus
    • Ray box + cross-threads • Metre stick
    • Concave mirror
    • Screen

    Procedure
    1. Measure the approximate focal length of the mirror by focusing a distance object onto a screen and measuring
    the distance from the mirror to the screen.
    2. Set the distance between the cross-threads and the mirror to a measured value (object distance) greater than the
    approximate focal length and aim the mirror at the screen.
    3. Move the screen back and forth until the image of the cross-threads is in sharp focus.
    4. Measure the distance between the screen and mirror (image distance).
    5. Repeat the experiment for a variety of object distances, ensuring it is always greater than the approximate focal
    length.

    Results
    Controlled Variables
    • Focal length of concave mirror.
    • Approximate focal length = 20 cm.

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    Results Table
    Object distance (u) /cm 1/u /cm-1 Image distance (v) /cm 1/v /cm-1 1/f /cm-1 f /cm
    24.0 0.0417 72.5 0.0138 0.0555 18.0
    32.0 0.0313 40.3 0.0248 0.0561 17.8
    40.0 0.0250 33.0 0.0303 0.0553 18.1
    48.0 0.0208 27.9 0.0358 0.0566 17.7
    Average 17.9

    Graph
    0.06

    0.05

    0.04
    1/u /cm^-1

    0.03

    0.02

    0.01

    0
    0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06
    1/v /cm^-1

    Calculations
    1 1 1
    • = +
    𝑓 𝑢 𝑣
    1 1 1 1
    • From graph, for = 0, = = 0.055 ⇒ 𝑓 = = 18.2 𝑐𝑚
    𝑣 𝑓 𝑢 0.055
    1 1 1 1
    • From graph, for = 0, = = 0.057 ⇒ 𝑓 = = 17.5 𝑐𝑚
    𝑢 𝑓 𝑣 0.057
    18.2+17.5
    • Average 𝑓 from graph = ≈ 17.9 𝑐𝑚
    2

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    Conclusions
    • The focal length of the mirror was measured to be 17.9 cm from the graph and from calculations using the
    spherical mirror formula.

    Comments

    Precautions
    • Find the approximate focal length of the mirror before making measurements to ensure that only real images are
    formed.
    • Measure distances from the back of the mirror.

    Sources of Error
    • Determining the exact position when the image is in sharpest focus is difficult.
    • Parallax error associated with measuring the object and image distances using the metre stick.

    Improvements
    • Perform the experiment using different objects.
    • Perform the experiment with an LED array instead of a ray box and cross-thread combination.

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