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What are all the vocabularies for Optics
What is the principal axis for a concave/convex mirror

PeigeLynn wrote:What are all the vocabularies for Optics
What is the principal axis for a concave/convex mirror

PeigeLynn,
We don't do students' homework on this forum. Opening a new thread won't change that. As you were told on your original thread, simple definitions can be easily obtained by googling. We are willing to help you with complicated stuff, but you need to do some work yourself. If this relates to your science fair project on growing plants in various soils, you need to explain to us the connection, so we can help you.

The wikipedia has excellent pages on these topics (optics). There are many cool "virtual labs" for optics online that pop up when you google (I typed in "virtual optics lab")-
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~gricher ... intro.html
Note: this site even has a lab on curved mirrors you can do with the virtual optics bench-
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~gricher ... irrors.htm

Your library may have this book,"Hecht, Eugene (2001). Optics", which is a pretty standard textbook on the topic.

Louise