How to Become a Better Cook""Becoming a Master Chef: Tips for Better Cooking

In summary, improving your cooking skills takes practice and patience. Meal planning is crucial for becoming a better cook as it helps with organization and creating healthy meals. Some essential cooking tools and equipment include a chef's knife, measuring cups and spoons, and a thermometer. To make meals more flavorful, experiment with herbs, spices, and fresh ingredients. Resources for learning about cooking techniques and flavor profiles include classes, instructional videos, cookbooks, and seeking advice from experienced chefs.
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Would it be possible for someone to breakdown the different type of lenses and mirrors and their properties like distance of object, distance of image, magnification, type of image (real/virtual, upright/inverted, magnified/reduced), and maybe like a diagram of some sort for the types of images produced at different distances from the mirror or lens (like form the focal point or radius of curvature). I think it would really help. I am just having trouble drawing out the images and diagrams.
Relevant Equations
Thin Lens Equation
Magnification Equation
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One thing that helps is to realize that concave mirrors act the same as convex lenses; the difference being that the images are on opposite sides of them.

Same holds for convex mirrors and concave lenses.
 
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Thank you this really helps.
 
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