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This document contains 13 practice problems about spherical mirrors and their properties including focal length, radius of curvature, image location and size, and magnification. The problems involve calculating unknown values given known values about the mirror and object/image positions. They reinforce key concepts about the characteristics of concave and convex mirrors and their ability to form real or virtual images.

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Mirror Worksheet PDF

This document contains 13 practice problems about spherical mirrors and their properties including focal length, radius of curvature, image location and size, and magnification. The problems involve calculating unknown values given known values about the mirror and object/image positions. They reinforce key concepts about the characteristics of concave and convex mirrors and their ability to form real or virtual images.

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  • CHAPTER 13 Worksheet 1: This section contains a series of physics problems focused on optical principles related to mirrors, lenses, and image formation.

CHAPTER 13 Worksheet 1

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1. A concave mirror has a focal length of 10 centimeters. Determine the radius of curvature. (Answer 20 cm)

2. If the radius of curvature of a curved mirror is 8 centimeters determine its focal length. (Answer 4 cm)

3. While you are looking at the image of your feet in a plane vertical mirror, you see a scratch in the glass. Assuming you
height to be 1.76 meters, what is the approximate height of the scratch from the floor. (Answer .88 m)

4. A concave mirror collects the light from a distant star. If the radius of curvature of the mirror is 150 centimeters, determine
the image distance. (Answer 75 cm)

5. An object is placed 25 centimeters from a concave mirror whose focal length is 5.0 centimeters. Determine the location of
the image. (Answer 6.25 cm)

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focus
center
image

6. An object 25.4-centimeters high is located 91.5 centimeters from a concave mirror, focal length 15 centimeters. A)
Determine location of image. B) Determine the height of the image. (Answer image distance = 17.94 cm, image height -
4.98 cm (inverted))

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focus
center
image

7. An object placed 50 centimeters from a spherical concave mirror gives a real image 33.3 centimeters from the mirror. A)
What is the radius of curvature of the mirror? B) If the image is 30.5 centimeters high, what is the height of the object?
(Answer focal point = 20.0 cm, R of C = 40 cm, ho = -45.8 cm)

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image

8. An object and its image in a concave mirror are the same height when the object is 36.4 centimeters from the mirror. What is
the focal length of the mirror? (Answer focal point = 18.2 cm)

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center

image

9. An object is placed 5 centimeters from a concave mirror whose focal length is 15 centimeters. A) Determine location of
image. B) If the object is 2.0 centimeters high, what is the height of the image?
(Answer image distance -7.5 cm, image height is 3 cm)

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center

focus object
CHAPTER 13 Worksheet 1

10. An object 5 centimeters tall stands at the 0 centimeters mark on a meter stick. A) If a convex mirror having a focal length of
25.0 centimeters is placed at the 50 centimeter mark, where is the image? B) How tall is the image.
(Answer 66.7cm, image height is 1.67 cm)

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11. A concave mirror whose radius of curvature is 4.0 meters forms the image of the moon. When the distance to the moon is
380,000 kilometers. What is the diameter of the image in centimeters if the diameter of the moon is 3480 kilometers?
(Answer -1.83 cm)

12. The image of an incandescent lamp filament is to be formed on a screen 5.0 meters from a concave mirror. The lamp
filament is 5.0 millimeters long. A) What should be the radius of curvature of the mirror? B) How far in front of the vertex
should the filament be?
(Answer object distance = -. 05m, focal length = .05m, R of C = .1m)

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center

object

13. A shaving mirror has a radius of curvature of 30 centimeters. When the face is 10 centimeters from the vertex of the mirror
determine the magnification. Assume a convex mirror.
(Answer focal point = 15 cm, image distance = -6cm, M = .6)

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object

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