College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
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Chapter 24, Problem 9CQ
Without measuring its radius of curvature (which is not so easy to do), explain how you can experimentally determine the focal length of (a) a concave mirror, (b) a convex mirror. Your apparatus consists of viewing screens and an optical bench on which to mount the mirrors and measure distances.
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The writing on the passenger-side mirror of your car says "Warning! Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" (Figure 1). There is no such warning on the driver's mirror. Consider a typical convex passenger-side mirror with a focal length of -80 cm. A 1.5-m-tall cyclist on a bicycle is 27 m from the mirror. You are 1.4 m from the mirror, and suppose, for simplicity, that the mirror, you, and the cyclist all lie along a line. How far are you from the image of the cyclist? How far would you have been from the image if the mirror were flat? What is the image height? What would the image height have been if the mirror were flat?
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College Physics (10th Edition)
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