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The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)

Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 139

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ion. In fig. 101 G M N represents both a con- vex and a concave mirror.They are both a portion ofa sphere of which O is thecentre. The outer part ofM N is a convex, and theinner part is a concave mir-ror. Let G B and H F betwo incident rays falling onthe surface of the convexmirror, M N, and… … *It is evident that the dotted lines, P B and T F are perpendicular to the cir-cle, and, of course, to the arc M N, because when prolonged they will meet at thecentre O. How can you explain the reason, why, when standing on one side of a mirror,we see the reflected objects on the opposite side I…

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