SPHERICAL MIRRORS LAB REPORT.

AIM OF THE LAB.

Learn how to draw image or be able to construct image formation of the different

forms of mirrors and lenses or ray diagrams.

At the end of this lab, we were able to

1. Differentiate between converging and diverging mirrors and lenses.

2. Determine image characteristics to lenses graphically using diagrams and

equations.

3. Know image characteristics to mirrors using same principle.

4. Know how to calculate magnification and using the thin lens formula.

Materials needed.

1. Concave and convex spherical mirrors

2. Convex lens

3. Concave lens

4. Light source

5. Optical bench

PROCEDURE.
In this lab the lab group had to draw image formation based on the ray diagram

laws of both mirrors and lenses. Some concepts were also taken into

consideration while doing this lab. Ray diagrams were drawn for objects at

different and varying distances. Some objects were placed in front, behind, or at

places with distance twice the focal length.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

Images formed by diverging is always virtual and between object and the lens

while image is real and inverted as long as object is outside the focal point. Real

images tend to converge at one point while virtual images appear to diverge to

form. For a diverging lens, the real object is virtual, real, and reduced but the

same does not apply for converging lens by using the thin lens equation. Convex

spherical mirrors have the property that they produce small objects and covers

large area therefore are used as the monitoring mirrors in stores and many shops.

CONCLUSIONS.

As an object gets closer to the convex mirror, the image gets smaller and taller.