The Law of Reflection states that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. Students will use ray tracing to predict the location and image characteristics for flat and curved mirrors. Students will use ray tracing to discover and explain how different types of images are created with plane, concave and convex mirrors
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Required Equipment Laser Ray Box and Optical Set, Mega Mirrors, diagram sheets.
Acknowledgements: Thank you to Lori Andersen for developing this lab. Lori is a veteran physics teacher at Grafton High School, in Virginia.
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