ANALYSIS

The first part of the experiment is concerned on proving the Laws of Reflection. Based on

the outcomes, the students were able to observe that the angle of the incident ray is equal to the

angle of the reflected ray. Thereby, this observation supports the Law of Reflection; that is, the

angle between incident ray and normal line is equal to the angle between reflected ray and

normal line. However, on several trials, the students were able to observe that there is a

discrepancy between the two. The one is greater than the other for about a degree and vice versa,

but this problem is being linked to subjective perception.

The second part of the experiment is concerned with the quantity of images formed

between adjacent mirrors. In view of the results, the students noticed that the number of images

reduces as the angle between the adjacent plane mirrors increases. The students were also able to

observe that as the angle between the adjacent mirrors is greater than 180 degrees, the number of

image formed is reduced to one. The reason behind is that the other mirror wont reflect light

towards the other mirror. However, a problem that the students encountered is counting the

number of mirrors. Some of them counted higher than the actual number of images; other are

less. Again, it has something to do with subjective perception.

The third part of the experiment is concerned with the focal length and radius of concave

and convex mirrors. In view with the results, the students were able to see that reflected rays

intersect at one common point, and is known to be the focal point. In addition, the distance of the

focal point to the curvature of the mirror is equal to the focal length. The students were also able

to see that the radius of concavity of the mirror is twice of that the focal length. Lastly, the

students were able to observe that the radius of the convex mirror is comparatively equal to that

of the radius of the concave mirror.

 The last part of the experiment is concerned with the focal length of spherical mirrors

with three conditions. In view of the results, the students were able to observe that the focal

length is still the same under the three conditions. However, the percentage error of the focal

length that the students computed when the object distance being greater than the image distance

is 9.42% due to the fact that they had a system error (error in reading measurements). In view

with the results, the students noticed that the object distance increases when the image distance

decreases and vice versa. Thereby, they have an inverse relationship if other variables were kept

constant.
CONCLUSION

In the first part of the experiment, the student concluded that light can be considered as a

wave because it was able to fulfill one property of a wave, which is the reflection. In the

second part of the experiment, the student concluded that the quantity of images formed when

adjacent mirrors are placed at a certain angle is dependent on that particular angle. The larger the

angle, the smaller quantity of image is being formed. Lesser angle, on the other hand, implies

larger quantity of image being formed. In the third part of the experiment, the student was able to

conclude that plane mirrors produces virtual, upright, same size and distance as the object.

Spherical mirrors on the other hand can be virtual or real, reduced or enlarged, upright or

inverted that depends on the type of spherical mirror being used. Lastly, the students were able to

conclude that the focal length of a spherical mirror is equal to the reciprocal of the reciprocal of

the object distance plus the image distance.

No recommendations were made since the students were able to do the experiment

successfully.