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Number of Images from Two Mirrors

Here are the steps to solve these problems: 1) Given: Angle between mirrors = 400 To find: Number of images Using the formula: N = 1/sin(θ/2) Sin(400/2) = sin200 = 0.342 N = 1/0.342 = 2.93 ~ 3 images 2) Given: Angle between mirrors = 200 To find: Number of images Using the formula: N = 1/sin(θ/2) Sin(200/2) = sin100 = 0.174 N = 1/0.174 = 5.75 ~ 6 images 3) Given: Number of images = 23 To find:

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Number of Images from Two Mirrors

Here are the steps to solve these problems: 1) Given: Angle between mirrors = 400 To find: Number of images Using the formula: N = 1/sin(θ/2) Sin(400/2) = sin200 = 0.342 N = 1/0.342 = 2.93 ~ 3 images 2) Given: Angle between mirrors = 200 To find: Number of images Using the formula: N = 1/sin(θ/2) Sin(200/2) = sin100 = 0.174 N = 1/0.174 = 5.75 ~ 6 images 3) Given: Number of images = 23 To find:

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  • Multiple Reflections: The title page introducing the topic of multiple reflections in optical physics.
  • Objectives: Outlines the learning goals for the topic, focusing on understanding the relationship between mirror angles and image formation.
  • Activity: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?: Describes an interactive activity to explore the effects of mirror angles on image formation, including materials and setup.
  • Procedure: Provides step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments with plane mirrors to observe multiple reflections at various angles.
  • Answers: Explains the results and relationships derived from the experiment with the mirrors, offering numerical answers to posed questions.
  • Multiple Images: Discusses the concept of multiple images formed by reflections and describes derived formulas to calculate them.
  • Exercises: Lists practice problems for the reader to solve based on the learned concepts of reflection from multiple mirrors.

MULTIPLE

REFLECTIONS
OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify the relationship between the


number of images formed and the angle
between two mirrors; and
2. Use the gathered data to derive the
formula for determining the number of
images formed when two mirrors are kept
at a certain angle.
Activity: Who Wants to be a
Millionaire?
Objectives:
• Identify the relationship between the number
of images formed and the angle between the
two mirrors.
• Use the gathered data to derive the formula
for determining the number of images formed
when two mirrors are kept at a certain angle.
Materials: • 1 one-peso coin
• 1 paper protractor • 2 plane mirrors
Procedure:
 1. Place two plane mirrors at an angle of 90o
and place the one-peso coin between the
mirrors as shown in the figure.
Procedure:
2. Count the number of images formed. Record
this in a table similar to Table 4 below. 3. Try to
vary the angle between the mirrors.
Q1. What happens to the number of images
formed as you vary the angle
between the mirrors?
4. Set the angle between the mirrors to 60o.
Count and record again the number of images
formed.
Procedure:
5. Do again step 4 for angles 45o and 30o. Enter
all the values in a table similar to the table
below.
Table 1. Number of Images Formed
Procedure:
Q2. Refer to Table 1. What relationship exists
between the number of images
formed and the angle between two mirrors?
Q3. Use the data in Table 1 to derive the
formula for determining the number
of images formed by two mirrors?
Q4. How should the mirrors be arranged such
that an infinite number of images will
be formed or seen?
Answers:
1. As the angle is varied, the number of images formed
also changes. As the angle between two mirrors
decreases, the number of images increases. Conversely, as
the angle between the mirrors increases, the number of
images formed decreases
Table 1. Number of Images Formed

3
5
7
11
Answers:
Q2. Refer to Table 1. What relationship exists
between the number of images
formed and the angle between two mirrors?

 From the data in the table, the number of


images is inversely proportional to the angle
between two mirrors.
Answers:
Q3.
  Use the data in Table 1 to derive the
formula for determining the number
of images formed by two mirrors?

- 1
 Where: N= number of images
Ɵ = is the angle between mirrors.
Answers:
Q4. How should the mirrors be arranged such
that an infinite number of images will
be formed or seen?

 The mirror should be parallel facing each


other to see an infinite number of images.
Multiple Images
 Multiple images
are formed by the
reflection that
happens when
arranging at least
two mirrors.
Multiple Images
 The
  number of images, N, can be determined
using the formula:

 -1
 Where: N= number of images
Ɵ = is the angle between mirrors.
Parallel mirrors on the other hand produce
infinite number of images.
Multiple Images
 What
  if the number of images is given, but
the angle is unknown?

Ɵ
 Where: N= number of images
Ɵ = is the angle between mirrors.
Exercises:
1. How many images will be formed by
two mirrors if the angle between
them is 400?
2.How many images will be formed by
two mirrors if the angle between
them is 200?
Exercises:
3. What is the angle between two
mirrors that form 23 images?
4. What is the angle between two
mirrors that form 19 images?

5. What is the angle between two


mirrors that form 35 images?

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