Description

Worksheet Contents

• This worksheet covers:

• Plane, concave and convex mirrors

• The law of reflection

• Reflection of light from plane, concave and convex mirrors

• Images formed by plane, concave and convex mirrors

• Properties of curved mirrors

• Mirror curvature and focal length

• Drawing ray diagrams

• Real images and virtual images

• Includes:

• Unit outline.

• Cloze activity (fill in the blanks).

• Short-answer questions.

• Extension questions.

• Topics for further research.

• Teacher version containing complete answers.

• Aligned to the Australian Year 9 Science curriculum.

• 10 pages.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of this worksheet students will be able to:

• ☑   Describe plane, concave and convex mirrors.

• ☑   Describe the law of reflection.

• ☑   Describe how light reflects off plane, concave and convex mirrors.

• ☑   Define focal point, focal length, principal axis, centre of curvature, radius of curvature and pole.

• ☑   Draw ray diagrams to determine the images produced by concave and convex mirrors.

• ☑   Differentiate between real and virtual images produced by mirrors.

 

This resource is also included in the Year 9 Physics PDF Workbook.

 

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