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: Parabolic mirrors optional
12: Ray-tracing fundamentals
13: Ray tracing: a second example
14: Ray tracing: a convex mirror
15: Interactive problem: image in a convex mirror
16: Mirror equations
17: Interactive checkpoint: mirror equations
18: Interactive problem: optical bench with a mirror
19: Gotchas
20: Summary

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