What is a concave mirror, and what its peculiar property?
We have a convex mirror in the drawing-room, which forms a beautiful miniature picture of the objects in the room; and I have often amused myself with looking at my magnified face in a concave mirror.
If rays fall convergent on a concave mirror, (fig.
A concave mirror, which is one that is hollowed out toward the middle, does the same thing.
A concave mirror, showing the appearance of the inverted and reflected image in the air.
Whilst experimenting with a concave mirror, by holding out the hand in the manner described, a bystander will see nothing of the image, because none of the reflected rays that form it enter his eyes.
The experiment mentioned by Ferguson, with a concave mirror, reflecting into the air the appearance of fire, &c.
Take next your magnifying or concave mirror, and detaching the sheet of paper from the wall, hold it nearly in front of the mirror between the latter and the window.
The reflector, on the other hand, forms the image at the focus of a concave mirror.
A curious Optical Illusion, produced by means of a Concave Mirror.
Pushing back the lens so as to render the rays parallel, and receiving them upon a concave mirror, they are brought to a focus; paper placed at that focus is caused to smoke and burn.
But instead of gathering up the rays from the carbon-points by a condensing lens, we gather them up by a concave mirror (m m', fig.
Heat of this intensity may be obtained with our ordinary camera and lens, and a concave mirror of very moderate power.
Receiving the beam from our electric lamp on a concave mirror (m m, fig.
At a certain distance from a concave mirror, an object will be seen inverted.
When the lens is used to form an image, the instrument is called a refracting telescope; when a concave mirror is used, it is called a reflecting telescope.
This may be done either by a convex lens, or by a concave mirror.
But the image may also be formed by means of a concave mirror, which, as well as the concave lens, has the property of collecting the rays of light which proceed from any luminous body, and of forming an image of that body.
The image formed by a concave mirror is magnified by a microscope, in the same manner as when formed by the concave lens.
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