Reflection and the Ray Model of Light tutorial
This comprehensive tutorial introduces the basic principles of reflection and applies them to plane, concave and convex mirrors. There are three lessons: "Reflection and Its Importance," "Image Formation in Plane Mirrors," "Concave Mirrors," and "Convex Mirrors." Each tutorial page includes illustrations and interactive questions to check for student understanding. Student extras and a teacher's guide for each section provide links to resources for further investigation. The law of reflection is defined and applied to the image formation of plane, concave, and convex mirrors. Images are found both by ray diagram and calculation, and properties of the images (and flaws such as spherical aberration) are discussed. Applications of mirrors enrich the lesson.
