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Optics:

Mirrors and Lenses


OBJECTIVE

•Recognize technical terms and


concepts in Optics.
Optic
s
•Branch of physics that studies the
behavior and properties of light,
including its interactions with matter.
REFLECTION
•Reflection is the bouncing off of light rays
when it hits a surface.

•We describe the path of light as straight-


line rays
•Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation (LASER)
Plane Mirror
n
n
If Plane
Mirror!
Object
Principal Axis
Mirror LEFT- RIGHT REVERSAL/ LATERAL INVERSION
-the effect in facing a plane mirror that makes the left side of the object
appears as the right side of the image and the right side appears as the left.

AMBULANCE

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