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: How tall should a full-length mirror be?
  8: Spherical mirrors
  9: Mirror terminology
10: Spherical mirrors: focal length equation
11: Derivation: focal length of a spherical mirror
12: Parabolic mirrors
13: Derivation: focal property of a parabola
14: Ray-tracing fundamentals
15: Ray tracing: a second example
16: Ray tracing: a convex mirror
17: Interactive problem: image in a convex mirror
18: Mirror equations
19: Interactive checkpoint: mirror equations
20: Interactive problem: optical bench with a mirror
21: Derivation: mirror equations
22: Gotchas
23: Summary

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