PRE-U TEXT PHYSICS VOLUME 2 ISBN: 978 983 3879 85 4

PRE-U TEXT
Physics Volume 2

Chapter 26 Geometrical Optics

Practice 26

At the end of this chapter you must know the following:

Curved Mirrors

Ray Diagram

Formulae For Curved Mirrors

Thin Lenses

STPM : 1999, P1/Q29; 2002, P1/Q5; 2005, P1/Q15; 2005, P1/Q16; 2005, P1/Q18
Reference : Pages 235 to 236

Guide

Curved Mirrors

Focal length , f 1 r
2

Formula for curved mirrors

1=1 1
f u v

m = (v/u) m = linear magnification

u = object distance from the mirror
v = image distance from the mirror

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m = hi hi = height of the image

ho ho = height of the object

Refraction at spherical surface of transparent material

n1 n2 = n2 n1
u u r

where n2 n1 is a positive value

Thin Lenses

Nature of the image formed by thin convex lens:

(a) Object distance longer than 2f

- inverted
- real
- diminished
- on the opposite side of the lens

(b) Object distance = 2f

- inverted
- real
- same size as the object
- on the opposite side of the lens

(c) Object distance between f and 2f

- inverted
- real
- magnified
- on the opposite side of the lens

(d) Object distance = f

- at infinity
(e) Object distance less than f

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- upright
- virtual
- magnified
- on the same side of the lens as the object

Nature of the image formed by thin concave lens:

- upright
- virtual
- diminished
- on the same side of the lens as the object

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