Mirrors

• What is a smooth and one side-polished surface that can reflect the light rays and form images?

  Mirrors
• What is formed by the actual intersection of light rays?

  Real image
• What can be seen or obtained on the screen?

  Real image
• What is always inverted?

  Real image
• What is formed on the same side as that of the object in front of the mirror?

  Real image
• What is formed due to an imaginary intersection of light rays (formed when the light rays appear to be originating from a point but do not actually meet)?

  Virtual image
• What cannot be formed or projected on the screen?

  Virtual image
• What is always upright?

  Virtual image
• What is formed behind the mirror?

  Virtual image
• What is the one that has a flat reflecting surface and produces an image, and has distinguishable characteristics such as virtual, upright, the same distance from the mirror as the object's distance, the same size as the object , and is laterally inverted?

  Plane mirror
• It has a curved reflecting surface and is formed when you cut out a piece from a sphere and make either of the surfaces reflective?

  Spherical Mirror
• It is curved inwards and the inner surface is reflective.

  Concave mirror
• It is curved outward and the outer surface is the reflective surface.

  Convex mirror
• It is the midpoint of a spherical mirror. It is represented by the letter "V".

  Vertex
• It is the center of the sphere of which the mirror is a part. The center of the curvature is denoted by "C".

  Centere of curvature
• It is the distance between the pole of the spherical mirror and the center of the curvature. It is denoted by "R".

  Radius of the curvature
• The straight line passing through the pole of a spherical mirror and the centere of the curvature.

  Principal axis
• It is the diameter of the reflecting surface of a spherical mirror.

  Aperture
• It is a point on the principal axis where the light rays parallel to the principal axis converge (if it is a concave mirror) or appear to diverge (if it is a convex mirror) after getting reflected from a mirror.

  Focus
• It is denoted by the letter "f". It is the distance between the center of the mirror and the focal point of the mirror. It is the point where a parallel beam of light converges or diverges.

  Focal length
• Location of the image?

  in front or behind
• Orientation of the image?

  inverted or upright
• Size of the image?

  same, reduced, enlarged
• Type of image?

  real or virtual