Concave and Convex Mirrors

Objective:
The purpose of this experiment is to study the characteristics of the image created on a concave and convex mirror.
Convex mirror

  The image appears smaller than the object. The image is upright. When moved closer, image get lager, and as the object gets farther away from the mirror, the image size becomes a lot smaller.When the object moves further from the mirror, the image gets smaller, and it is still upright. Object distance becomes much larger than the image distance.

 

 

Concave mirror

 The image is smaller than the object, and it is inverted. The distance between object and the mirror is greater than the froce.The image becomes upright and the size is larger than the object. Image is closer to the mirror than the object.Image is still smaller than the object and inverted. The difference of distance become lager. The distance from mirro to object is less than the froce.

 

 

Conclusion

For the convex mirror,image is always upright and smaller than the object. For the convave mirror, when the object is close to the mirror, the image is upright and larger than the object, while the image is inverted and smaller than the object when the object is far from the mirror.