COMPARITIVE STUDY ON THE USES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF MIRRORS IN THE

STATES KARNATAKA AND UTTARAKHAND

TEAM: “BELIEVERS”

Team Members: Akshat, Ishan, Dhruv & Ishika

Class VII A

Also known as the

A plane mirror is a diverging mirror since Also known as the
mirror with flat the rays diverge after converging mirror
reflective surface. The falling on the convex since the rays
image formed is mirror. The image converge after falling
virtual, erect, of same formed is always on the concave mirror.
size and at same virtual, erect, and The image formed here
distance. diminished. are real and inverted
except 1 case where
the object is closer to
the Pole. In that case
image is virtual, erect,
and highly magnified.
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Plane Mirror:

 Art and Craft

Lambani is one of the community’s embroidery work that is inspired
in making of the plane mirror key chains, one of the creative works
of the people of Bijapur.

 Cleanliness (social work): As part of Swachh Survekshan 2020,

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) has installed mirrors in
five locations across the city to deter people from urinating in public
and eliminate public urination spot.


Concave mirror:

 This type of mirror helps in increasing the efficiency of solar

energy and reduce the emission of CO and CO2 into the
atmosphere. Solar energy is converted into electrical energy
by using photovoltaic cells.

World’s largest Solar park in Karnataka: Pavagada Solar Park (2050

MW)

Convex mirrors:

 Used in parking lots Used in shopping stores to

and is placed in such a watch activities of
way that you can see if customers.
any vehicle or person
is coming from the
extensive part of the
parking lot
 Uttarakhand

Plane Mirror: Art & Craft

There are small pieces of polished plastic that have a shine that are
found in many dresses. These pieces of plastic look like small Plane
Mirror

 Wood craft frame using Likhai (Wood craft of Uttarakhand) for plane
mirrors.

 Blind spots to avoid accidents (Social work)

 Uttarakhand is going to install large convex mirrors on ‘blind spots’
to reduce the possibilities of accidents across the hill state

Concave Mirror: Concave mirrors are used in solar plants because they are
the only type of mirrors that reflect sunlight to a single focal point.

 Solar based steam cooking: For cooking of food in Hotels, Ashrams,

Educational Institutions and steam generation for laundry
application, space cooling, foods processing in industries

 Solar applications:

UREDA has been encouraged to take a leading role in the development of

the renewable energy sector for promotion of energy conversion

For electricity access to the houses in the villages/cities of Uttarakhand,

UREDA is installing a LED based Solar Home Light System. The Solar
home light system comprises of the LED lamp, battery, PV modules etc.

Solar Street light

 Similarities between the two states: -

Reflecting telescope – Concave mirrors are used in reflecting telescopes

Periscope= The mirrors are placed in

an angle in a tube such that the light
reflects on the mirrors forming an
image in your eyes.

Magnifying glass - Convex

mirrors are widely used for
making magnifying
glasses. To make a
magnifying glass, two convex
mirrors are placed back-to-
back.
 Headlights - When the bulb of
headlights is placed at the focus
of a concave lens, it allows the light
to spread out to infinity (longer
distances) and at infinity they are
approximately parallel. Hence,
concave mirrors are used in the
headlights of vehicles.

Kaleidoscopes – a
kaleidoscope consists of two or more
reflecting surfaces tilted to each
other in an angle, so that one or more
(parts of) objects on one end of the
mirrors are a regular symmetrical
pattern when viewed from the other
end, due to repeated reflection.

Rear – view mirror - Convex mirrors

are widely used as rear-view mirrors
in automobiles and vehicles
because it can diverge light beams
and make virtual images
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