ANALYSIS

This experiment was all about plane and spherical mirrors on which its cause and effect is
due to the perception of the person through the eye coming from the light that sees the image and
the formation of the images. In which the light is a representation to a wave or a particle by
means of its properties that the ray of light can emit and absorb within the object that produces
with a greater or lesser clear image. And with the law of reflection it would show the principles
of the mirrors being involve that could explain the observers direction on how it sees through
plane within its orientation or curve surface that is facing behind or in front of the light source.
In the first part of the experiment that deals with the law of reflection which to determine
how the relationship of the incident and reflected ray are equal based on the first law. As we go
through, the incident ray is the incoming light while the reflected ray is the outgoing but it must
be perpendicular through the normal which in our data having 60 degrees being deflected to
another side which equivalent also to 60 degrees this means that the stated law is true that two
angles that being deflected by the ray are equal to each other because of the normal acting upon
the plane surface is in perpendicular that was same to its direction at any point. In the second part
which is to recognize how many images will be formed using the two plane mirrors and with the
push pin considering the orientation we see that as the angle decrease the amount of images tends
to increase that as we set it to 30 degrees the observer sees 11 images while 90 degrees it formed
3 images that refers to the explanation of virtual images which is possible in a two mirror system.
The third was to determine the radius and focal length using spherical mirrors which it could be
in concave or convex mirrors with experimental or actual which to find the inward, outward
intersection of the light source that strikes through the lens which it is called as the focal point
and when the distance between the focal point with the vertex of the lens is known as focal

length but to distinguish the radius of its curvature the relationship of the radius was twice of the
focal length where it is directly proportional to each other and the tangent curve is for actual that
the percent error for concave was 1.6% which is good result and convex was 7.37% . This means
that convex mirror can only view a virtual image not the real image because its intersection is
parallel to the axis that does not meet. In the last part which is to determine the focal length that
varies with the object and image distance that if the object distance greater than the image
distance using the concave mirror which as the object distance is increasing then the image
distance tends to decrease that formation of an image to the screen which tends to be smaller
because the screen is at the focal point or lying outside in the point of image. And it also differ if
the image distance being greater than the object distance that the object distance tends to
decreases and the image distance increases because the screen is inside the intersection of the
focal point that results of the image being virtual to the other side which became larger which the
percent error was 4.19% then if the object distance is equal to image distance the size of the
object is the same which means the image is being inverted and real which the result of percent
error was 1.25%.
The biggest percent error that we encountered was on the third part on the convex mirror
finding its focal length and radius which is about 7.37% and also for image distance greater than
object distance was about 4.19% which the source of error that could be experience in first part
was the alignment of the normal ray and in the second up to the last part was the proper
orientation with clear image formation and alignment to its distance. To lessen this error make
sure that you have knowledge considering the mirrors involved specifically the plane and
spherical concerning its position with the intersection of the light source forming into a real or
virtual image.

CONCLUSION
In all aspect in this experiment the light gives a great part on how the image will be
formed considering the types of mirror that was used. I have learned that mirrors could overview
the magnitude and formation of the images referring to the plane and spherical mirrors. On the
first part which is the law of reflection is a best representation by the two rays which are the
incident and reflected ray, the first law stated that the angle of incident is equal to the angle of the
reflection which is true and being proven through the data weve made. For part two up to the
last part between the plane and spherical mirrors, the plane mirror tends to be reverses to the
front and bounces back which what we see in front is the real image but if it is consist of two
lens or more it is virtual image which is proven on the number of images that was shown. For the
spherical mirrors consist of two types the concave and convex in which concave or converging
lenses is commonly used by all people because on what you see in the mirror is inverted position
and real which its intersection is behind the mirror but then it is also be in virtual image that the
preference of course is in upright position while convex or diverging lenses cant produce real
images because to produce real image the ray of light must move through behind the intersection
likewise the concave are parallel that causes not to meet each other and also the relationship of
object-image distance gives the idea of the size projected specially with the focal point.
Therefore the relationship of what we see coming from the light takes the minimum or maximum
of the length and sizes which varies to the mirror. I recommend in this experiment that the
students should able to learn the concepts dealing with source of light and mirror especially the
two types and how they are properly used. They should able to understand the principles required

and how the equipments was correctly applied to lessen the mistakes that might be happen
during the observation.