Optics
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The branch of science that deals with mirrors and light is optics. Optics studies the behavior of light, its interaction with different surfaces like mirrors, and how it forms images. It also includes the study of lenses, refraction, reflection, and the properties of light.
Light interacts with concave and convex mirrors in different ways. Concave mirrors converge light rays to a focal point, creating real or virtual images depending on the object's position relative to the mirror. Convex mirrors diverge light rays, creating smaller, upright, and virtual images, making them useful for wide-angle views or as security mirrors.
A tool that gathers light with mirrors and lenses is called a telescope. Telescopes are used to observe distant objects in space by collecting and focusing light.
Concave mirrors and convex mirrors are two types of curved mirrors. Concave mirrors converge light rays to a focal point and can form real or virtual images. Convex mirrors diverge light rays and produce virtual, upright, and diminished images.
No - the only reflect light.
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