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This discussion focuses on enhancing cooking skills through practical simulations and understanding the principles of optics in culinary techniques. Participants recommend utilizing online simulations to grasp the behavior of concave mirrors and convex lenses, emphasizing their analogous functions in cooking. The insights provided clarify that concave mirrors function similarly to convex lenses, with the distinction being the positioning of images. This knowledge is essential for mastering techniques that involve reflection and refraction in cooking.

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  • Knowledge of image formation in optics
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Home cooks, culinary students, and anyone interested in improving their cooking skills through the application of scientific principles and practical simulations.

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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.
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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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