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Light Rays and Mirrors Lab. Key Ideas. “Seeing” involves light rays coming from a source to our eyes. Our eyes have no capacity to reach out and capture a sighting. If light rays are coming directly from the source to our eyes, we see the source itself.
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Key Ideas • “Seeing” involves light rays coming from a source to our eyes. Our eyes have no capacity to reach out and capture a sighting. • If light rays are coming directly from the source to our eyes, we see the source itself. • Most of the time we don’t see light from the source directly. We see the fraction of light rays that bounce off the source then come to our eyes.
Questions • What do mirrors do? • How do they work? • How do we see reflections of other things and ourselves in a mirror?
What do the patterns reveal? • Is there a pattern between the incoming light and the outgoing light?
Light Rays • Nothing is ever seen in a mirror that is behind the plane of the mirror • The angle at which light rays strike a mirror always equals the angle at which they leave the mirror
Why does the image appear as though it is located through and behind the mirror? • Our eye-brain system has no way of determining that light has “turned a corner,” which is why we see images as though they are located through or behind the mirror