Concave Mirrors: Image Formation and Ray Tracing

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Explores the focal length of concave mirrors and reflection laws.

Explains image formation in convex mirrors using graphical and analytical methods.

Explores image formation by a converging light beam passing through a diverging lens and reflecting off a mirror.

Covers determining object and image positions using a converging lens and scale drawings.

Covers the ray matrix of a lens and the matrix representation of lenses and curved mirrors.

Explores the connection between matrix optics and ray optics in optical systems, focusing on ray tracing and imaging.

Explores cardinal planes and points in matrix optics, including optical power and ray tracing examples.

Explores curvature, inflection points, and angular functions in plane curves, highlighting the importance of inflection points.

Covers curvature, osculating circles, and the evolute of plane curves, with examples and equations.

Introduces hyperbolic geometry, covering complete metric spaces, isometries, and Gaussian curvature in dimension 2.