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Answer» Procedure : - Take a rectangular shaped (3″ x 6″) Acrylic sheet.
- Hold the Acrylic sheet with your palm without bending it.
- Ask your friend to focus light with a torch light on the sheet.
- Now adjust the sheet as reflected rays are caught on a wall.
- Now bend slowly your palm as the sheet bends inwards in the shape of concave.
- Again ask your friend to focus the light.
- Now bend slowly your palm as the sheet bends outwards in the shape of convex.
- Again ask your friend to focus the light.
Observation : - In the first case, when without bending the sheet, reflected light is not converged at one place. Because the sheet was acted as a plane mirror.
- In the second case, reflected light converged at one place. Because the acrylic sheet is bent inwards and it is acted as a concave mirror.
- In the third case, reflected light rays are not converged, of course they diverged with low intensity. Because the sheet was acted as a convex mirror.
Conclusion : Concave surfaces converge light rays and convex surfaces diverge.
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