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20 Cards in this Set
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Light |
Form of energy that travels by electromagnetic waves |
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Reflection |
Way in which light bounces off surfaces |
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Diffuse Reflection |
Way in which light reflects off an object that one would not normally regard as reflective |
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Regular Reflection |
Way in which light reflects off smooth surfaces like mirrors |
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Incident Ray |
Ray of light falling into the mirror |
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Normal |
Imaginary line radiating perpendicular from the mirror at the point where the incident ray strikes the mirror |
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Angle of Incidnece (i) |
Angle between normal and incidence ray. |
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Angle of reflection (r) |
Angle between normal and reflected ray |
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Real Images |
Actual intersection of light rays |
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Virtual Images |
Apparent intersection of light rays |
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Object |
What rays of light have come together prior to striking the mirror |
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Image |
Location from which rays of light appear to be coming from |
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Object Distance (u) |
Distance between mirror and object |
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Image distance (v) |
Distance between mirror and image |
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Parallax |
Relative movement of two objects due to movement of the observer |
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Magnified |
Height is greater than object |
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Diminished |
Height is less than object |
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Inverted |
Upside down |
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Erect |
Same way up |
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Laterally inverted |
Right side of object is on the left side of image and vice versa |
