Curved mirror l (concave and convex mirrors) A-level; lesson 1 o f 2

Terminologies of curved mirrors (pole of mirror, principal axis, center of curvature, C, principal focus, F, focal length, f, radius of curvature, r; paraxial rays); caustic surface, parabolic mirrors and their advantage in car headlight; characteristics of images formed by concave mirrors at various distances from the pole, uses of concave mirrors, characteristic of images formed by convex mirror, uses of convex mirrors.