ASSESSMENT:

CRITICAL JOURNAL REVIEW

SIMULATED ANALYSIS OF IMAGE FORMATION FOR
CONCAVE MIRROR WITH SCILAB BY USING THE
CONCEPT OF CALCULUS

LECTURER: ARRANGED BY: Drs. Marsangkap Silitonga M.Pd

 Febriawan Gultom(5193230001)

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MEDAN
 REVIEW THE JOURNAL

TITLE OF JOURNAL Simulated Analysis Of Image Formation For

Convance Mirror With Scilab By Using The
Concept Of Calculus
PAGE OF JOURNAL 10 pages
THE YEAR 2019
WRITER Erwin Randjawali and Robi D. Riupassa
PREEFACE The utilization of computer as a medium of
learning has been proven can attract interest
and motivation of student to study physics.
One way to use it as medium is by creating a
simulation which is related to the topic being
taught. The simulation is made by using the
physics concepts about optical geometry in
concave mirror, computation of science, and
the concept of calculus. The application
which are used in this simulation is Scilab
6.0.0 and simplescreenrecorder 0.3.8. In this
experiment, we create two types of
simulation of image formation drawing
which is normaly found in Physics text book.
In the first type, the tip of the special rays is
described precisely about the curvature of
the concave mirror, while the second type,
the end of the rays are drawn up to the line s
0. The aims of this experiment is to produce
a learning media which can be used by
student to predict image formation of
concave mirror, and also to compare which
type gives the same result as the result
obtained analytically. Result of the
simulation shows that the first type has a
difference when compared with analytic
result. By using mirror radius 20cm, object
distance 25cm. and the height of object Scm,
we get error calculation of image distance
about 3.533% and the height of the object
about 2,650%. The errors in the first type
quite vary according to the value of s and h
which are used.

PURPOSE This simulation is made not only by using the

concept of Physics, but it also needs to be
combined with the knowledge of computing
tools and applied mathematical
concepts.Because it can not be denied that
 Mathematics is a language used among
scientist, so students also need to learn
Mathematics concepts needed to study
Physics
THE SUBJECT The study was conducted by studying the
literafure of hooks and journals relevant to
the simulation of the formation of images on
a spherical mirror, and the use of Scilab in
computational science
METHOD The writer’s use action research or observation in
STKIP PGRI PASURUAN. However, only
37 students were taken as the subjects of the
study on the basis of the
consistency of attendance and papers
submitted during the research. This class was 
taken because of their problems in writing,
Such as grammar, vocabulary and ideas.
RESEARCH PROCEDURE Flowchart to make this
simulation can be seen in
Figure L. This simulation uses
Scilab because it is a free
open-source software (FOSS)
that can be usd for scientific
things, such as numerical
computation, simulation,
oprimization, and so on [11].
Free open- source software is
perfect for research and
education because the cost of
buy ing and maintaining &is
very small, and even some
software does not cost thatr
[12]. In ihis stuly we used wo
types of ways to descihe the
formation of images n concave
miror which is normally found
in Physics textbooks. For the
fint type, the incaming rays are
descibed
precisely about the curvature
of the mirror, and then
reflected [13], while the
second type, the tip of these
special rays is drawn to touch
the line s-0 and also reflected
[14]. Both types of ways to
illustrate the formation of this
image can be seen in Figure 7
and Figure 9. The results of
this simulation are then
 compared with the results
obtained analytically, in order
to determine which type is
appropriate with analytic
results.

INSTRUMENTS There are several instruments used in thestudy.

They were direct writing tests, observation,
documentation, and scoring guide to score the
students’ compositions.

RESULT The results of this simulation

are then compared with the
results obtained analytically,
in order to determine which
type is appropriate with
analytic results.

STRONGNEST OF JOURNAL This journal give a specific method of research

and from the journal we can find that the
abstract relate to main topic

WEAKNESS OF JOURNAL According to us the writer can take picture as

long the test of research happened, it will be
more trusted than just ive some information
about the score of the test.

CONCLUSION From the journal we found out that explicit

planning instruction effectively can improve
the students paragraph writing performance.