Lesson: Chapter 5 — Optics

Images formed by a concave mirror 6 of 7

A very distant object

An object very far away sends rays that are almost parallel, and they meet very close to the focus.

A distant object; the rays arrive almost parallel and cross just beyond F, forming a very small inverted real image.

The image

At the focus, on the same side of the mirror as the object. It can be caught on a screen — this is Activity 5.1.

Real Inverted Much smaller than the object