Mirrors Definition and 252 Threads

There is the figure provided. I know how to approach this problem analytically, but before that I tried to use some logic- Using mirror formula assuming the first reflection occurs at M1, we get that the first image is formed at a distance ##60 cm## from the pole of M1 to its left. So, if this...

please be specific about the number of mirrors I have to use and how large they should be and what angles they should be placed at. And how much light and where should I shed. Thank you. I also made a stupid doodle which I thought might help

I think the given solution is wrong. The lens forms image at ##(+75,0)## which is ##25 cm## from pole of the convex mirror which acts as virtual object for mirror. It is true that the reflected ray is rotated by ##2\theta## as in case of plane mirror. Rotation of Spherical Mirrors But that...

Imagine a special box made of inward facing mirrors. These mirrors have zero mass and are perfectly reflective. A single photon is inside the box bouncing from side to side between the two mirrors of the sides of the box. The photon is perfectly preserved in this state, and loses no energy...

I must add, that, when used in a lit space, or in daylight, spraying before the mirror does not make any light rays visible. Is it simply a matter of light scattering? Also, I am not sure whether this question belongs here or in classical physics.

I am trying to build a Fabry-Perot interferometer to make some narrow band filters, and I was wondering if anyone can go into the specifics of whether there's anything special about the types of mirrors used in construction. I started by trying to see how hard it really is to make one on my...

For this problem, The solution is, I don't understand how if ## \gamma < 0## then there will be multiple reflections? I don't understand how ##\gamma## can be negative. Many thanks!

Hi guys, i am Nenad Komjenović from Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am just a regular guy, who likes geeky stuff and i don't know physics, so i wanted to ask you guys for an opinion. I was inspired by the "Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project" Youtube video, in which the guy used fresnel lens to...

I'm currently confused in determining whether an image formed by the 1st mirror (the left one) is a real or virtual object for the 2nd mirror. Here is the solution manual: This is what I have in my mind: Since the object is located between the focus and radius point of the first mirror, the...

Summary:: Do my parabolic mirrors need to be really shiny to reflect infrared? I have 2 really old CENCO parabolic reflectors. I need to use them to demonstrate infrared light radiation by placing a heat source near one mirror, reflecting its heat to a second parabolic mirror and...

Here is a concept suggesting reactionless drive: Setup: A light pulse of wavelength l0 bouncing between 2 mirrors one on the left - ML and one on the right - MR. Each mirror oscillates perpendicularly to light travel direction attaining relativistic speeds vl, vr. Light pulse is timed so it...

Parabolas are the only geometrical shape in which we have a perfect focus (not an approximate one) and does not depend in the angle of incidence being small. So, why do we even build spherical mirrors and not only parabolic mirros?

I did a little experiment recently where I took a plane mirror and held it underneath a ceiling light. Then, I began to lower my head so that my view was closer and closer to the surface. When I did this, the image of the light began to drift lower and lower in the mirror until it completely...

I tried to use complementary angles and the law of reflection but I still have no idea how to find the angle.

For the Black Hole Bomb to be effective, does it need the mirrors there, or can they be replaced with wormholes, or some other quirk of spacetime?

The setup of the problem is shown in the image below. I know that I must add all the contributions of each reflected ray and that its amplitude will be reduced by a factor ##r## each time it is reflected. So after the n-th reflection, its amplitude will be ##E_0r^n##, with ##E_0## the amplitude...

Hi, So there is already a written solution which I have, but this is more a question about why we omit reflection that come back to the same mirror? Method: Let us consider one of the mirrors, we know it will emit a heat flux given by: q_{1} = \epsilon_{1} \sigma T_{1}^4 . Given that we are...

The equation gives us that i = -mp = -0.4 * 30 = -12 The 'correct' answer is +12. Did I miss something here?

Magnification |M|<1 = smaller |M|>1 = larger This is my reasoning because the magnification is -d0/di so it is the ratio that matters. Because wouldn't the sign just affect the type of image?? If you consider the sign in image size, you are saying that only one type of image (real/virtual)...

Hello, A light pulse moving bouncing between two mirrors (top and bottom) follows a vertical straight path w.r.t. to an inertial observer at rest relative to the mirrors. However, a moving inertial observer see the light pulse move in a zig-zag path as it bounced back and forth between the...

I'm confused about something regarding phase shifts but I'm not sure I've pinned down what. I had always thought of a mirror as introducing a global phase shift of π in the position basis, but I only now realize that this makes no sense: of course -A ⊗ B = A ⊗ -B, so a global phase shift is not...

Special relativity is replete with examples of turning mirrors into clocks. Place two mirrors across from one another, bounce light between them, and measure the time. But as I thought about this, when a photon hits the mirror, it is absorbed by an electron which moves to a higher energy...

The mirror that I'm talking of, is situated in Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. This place was once the capital of Bengal under the Nawab before the British defeated the Nawab in the historic battle of Plassey, 1757. The history is not that important here, but the mirror...

I was reading a pdf that mentioned a quantum-controlled beam splitter and wondered whether a quantum-controlled mirror exists. In the beam-splitter case, the beam splitter could either be present or absent, such that path information of photons was either preserved or not. It was controlled...

Two identical front surface mirrors are hung in a vacuum chamber with a high vacuum with a bit of bias of their mass wanting to lean into each other so they don't separate on their own. The metal surface is connected to a variable high voltage source. Both mirrors are connected to the same...

Emission theories propose that the velocity of light depends on the velocity of the light source. But the ordinary Doppler effect assumes the velocity of light remains as ##c## with respect to the ether medium, even when the light source is moving at speed ##v## with respect to the ether. They...

i want to know the concave mirros is always real images or any difference then how to calculate thanks and regards Uday

The number of mirrors typically used in Michelson Interferometer is 2. I am looking up the respective Wikipedia article and MIT's youtube video. I am wondering, for the sake of one of my experiment, whether more than 2 mirrors can be used in the interferometer? I require the traversing mirror...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution [/B] I tried to draw a rough figure depicting the situation. Here M is the mosquito and I1, I2, I3 are its images . Mosquito can clearly see it's image I1 .Now whether it can see I2and I3 is something I am not too sure ...

Hi. In a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, there are mirrors in both paths. When a photon gets reflected on a mirror, it transfers momentum. Also, mirrors are classical objects that are usually not assumed to exist in superposition states. Shouldn't it (at least in principle) be possible to measure...

Homework Statement A concave mirror (f1 = 13.6 cm) and a convex mirror (f2 = −7.00 cm) are facing each other and are separated by a distance of 35.8 cm. An object is placed between the mirrors and is 17.9 cm from each mirror. Consider the light from the object that reflects first from the...

Hi experts, I am aware using prisms enable total internal reflection while using mirrors there is only reflection of light. The difference is that in the former there is 100% light intensity after reflection while the latter does not. I have also read that using prisms is better than using...

Hello! I hope that i am doing this right. This is my first post of a question. So, I've been reading about a design for a fusion reactor called a "Polywell". The Polywell, as I understand it, works by sending electron beams to the device's center which suck in protons/deuterium/tritium/etc. so...

Homework Statement u= distance from the object to the mirror v = distance from the image to the mirror f = focal length I don't understand what they are talking about and I would like to 2. Homework Equations If the image is real 1/u + 1 v = 1/f If the image is virtual 1/u - 1/v = 1/f The...

If a photon were trapped between two perfect mirrors perpendicular to its axis of motion, and they were gradually brought together until they were touching, so that the distance between their faces was 0m, would the photon be "trapped" between the mirrors? Without space in which to move, how...

A telescopes sensitivity, or how much detail it can see is directly related to the size of the mirror area that collects light from the objects being observed. So a bigger mirror means higher resolution so you can see more detail at greater distances right? does it also mean it can collect more...

Hi. I'm trying to proof the image formation property of a concave spherical mirror. I know you can do this easily with a particular choice of rays (namely one that hits the vertex and one that passes through the center of the sphere) but I would like to show that a generic ray yields the same...

Homework Statement Two plain mirrors are put parallelly and 20 cm from each other. A source of light is put between the mirrors, 5 cm away from one. Find the distance from the mirrors of 4 first reflections. Homework Equations a1=a2 The distance of the object from the mirror and the reflection...

Homework Statement You are standing approximately 2 m away from a mirror. The mirror has water spots on its surface. True or False: It is possible for you to see the water spots and your image both in focus at the same time. Homework Equations p=object distance q=image distance The Attempt...

I wanted to know whether or not a perfect mirror would experience recoil when light reflects off it, and I also wanted to know whether or not light can cause a recoil during total internal reflection. I suspect that the recoil is negligible (Even with a normal mirror) and that you could easily...

if we fix huge amount of mirrors on surfface of moon...can we obtain light on Earth during night ?

How do we use Fermat's principle of least time to explain the required shapes of lenses and mirrors?

The question posed: "An object is located to the right of a mirror that in concave in its [the object's] direction. If the object sits on the focal point of the mirror, what answer best describes the image formed?" Our class is united in the notion that as the rays would be parallel...

Has the double slit experiment ever been performed with an adjacent reflection? With quantum weirdness I'm curious as to whether the reflection would give the same results as the actual apparatus as to which slit the particle wen through.

Spherical mirrors. We are given p= +18 and the mirror is concave with f= 12. Find r, i, m, Real or Virtual, Imaginary or not imaginary, and what side of the mirror is the image on. All units are cm. r: f=r/2, so r=2f r= 24 cm i: (1/p) + (1/i)= (1/f), so (1/f)-(1/p)=(1/i) i= 36 cm m...

In fluorescence microscopy, dichroic mirrors reflect light under a critical wavelength (used to excite the sample) and transmit light over a critical wavelength (emission light from the sample). Are there mirrors that reflect two different wavelengths of light and transmit the rest? Essentially...

Hi Everyone, A question in my latest Physics I lab wishes for a proof showing that if a laser beam is incident on a mirror that is then rotated an angle θ the beam is deflected an angle 2θ. I attempted to prove this geometrically below. In the diagram the angle γ, is the angle of deflection...

[Mentors' note - this post was forked off from this thread because it's an interesting question in its own right] I would also like clarification on this. if you throw a rubber ball at concrete, it will "bounce off". if you throw the rubber ball at mud, the mud will absorb it and it will stay...

We are finishing up light and I'm a little confused on when the object distance would be negative when we are talking about mirrors and not lenses. The definition we were given is that the object distance is negative if the incoming light is on the opposite side of the mirror then the object is...

Lets say you have two perfectly reflective parallel mirrors in a frictionless vacuum. You fire off a beam of light between them, so that it bounces between them continuously. Do they continuously accelerate away from each other due to radiation pressure? I think the answer must be no, but I...