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@ -42,3 +42,23 @@ Plane mirror, concave and convex spherical mirror |
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Fig. 1. a) plane b) concave c) convex mirrors |
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#### Are plane and spherical mirrors stigmatic? |
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##### Perfect stigmatism of the plane mirror |
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* A plane mirror is **perfectly stigmatic**. |
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* Object and image are symmetrical on both side of the surface of the plane mirror. |
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* A real object gives a virtual image.<br> A virtual object gives a real image. |
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##### Non stigmatism of the spherical mirror |
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* In each point of the spherical mirror, the law of reflection applies. |
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* A spherical mirror is not stigmatic: The rays (or their extensions) |
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* coming from an object point generally do not converge towards an image |
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* point (see Fig. 2.) |
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