Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Light and reflection
  2: Light rays
  3: Mirror basics
  4: Virtual and real images
  5: The law of reflection
  6: Ray diagrams for planar mirrors
  7: Spherical mirrors
  8: Mirror terminology
  9: Spherical mirrors: focal length equation
10: Parabolic mirrors optional
11: Ray-tracing fundamentals
12: Ray tracing: a second example
13: Ray tracing: a convex mirror
14: Interactive problem: image in a convex mirror
15: Mirror equations optional
16: Interactive checkpoint: mirror equations optional
17: Interactive problem: optical bench with a mirror optional
18: Gotchas
19: Summary

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