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    This document describes an experiment to determine the focal length of a concave mirror using the u-v method. The experiment involves placing an object pin at varying distances in front of the mirror and adjusting an image pin to locate the mirror image. Readings for the object and image distances are recorded and used to calculate the focal length using the formula f=u*v/(u-v).

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    This document describes an experiment to determine the focal length of a concave mirror using the u-v method. The experiment involves placing an object pin at varying distances in front of the mirror and adjusting an image pin to locate the mirror image. Readings for the object and image distances are recorded and used to calculate the focal length using the formula f=u*v/(u-v).

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    ExperimentNo.

    9 Date:

    FOCAL LENGTH OF CONCAV


    EMIRROR
    Determination of the focal length of a concave mirror by u -v method.
    Aim:

    Apparatus: Optical bench, two sharp - edged pins, concave mirror of focal length less than
    0enm, three uprights with clamps and metre scale.
    Principle: 1)Focal length is the distance between the pole and principal focus ofthe mirror.
    2) The object distance must be greater than the focal length of the concave mirror
    to get a real and inverted image.
    Formula : Focal length of concave mirror,

    f=

    Where u -distance of the object from the mirror

    V -distance of the image from the mirror

    Procedure:
    image of the
    forward and backward to obtain the sharp
    1) The given concave mirror is moved
    vertically before the mirror. Then the distance
    distant object on the white sheet of paper kept
    gives the approximate focal length fof the
    between the mirror and the sheet of white paper
    COncave mirror.
    on one side
    mirror, object pin P and image pin P, are placed
    2) The uprights mounted with concave
    of the optical bench as shown in the figure. tips lie on the
    image pin P,are adjusted such that their
    3) The heights of the object pin P and
    principal axis of the mirror. which is greater
    adjusted such that it will be at a distance u
    4) The position of the object pin P is
    than f.

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    NARAYANA PU COLLEGES
    Diagram:
    P -Objectpin

    P - Imagepin
    F 0 | - Image
    M-Concave
    mirror
    P. P.

    l i s t o n lb l s

    Jo

    Observation:

    Tabular column:
    Object distance u in cm Image distance v in cm f= in cm
    Trial No.

    96
    1

    2 336
    3
    32
    cm
    Meanf=,

    44
    NARAYANA PUCOLLEGES
    Caleulation:

    NARAYANA PUCOLLEGES 46
    6) Seeing the inverted and enlarged image of the object pin P from the other side of the optical
    bench, the position of the image pin P, is adiusted so that its tip coincides with the tip of the
    image without parallax.Then the distance between the concave mirror and image pin P,becomes
    image distance y.
    6) The focal length fof the concave mirror is calculated using the formula,

    7) Experiment is repeated for differed values of u and readings are tabulated and average focal
    length is found.

    Result: The focal length of the concave mirror, f=.......cm .

    PRECAUTION
    1. The aperture of mirror should be small otherwise the image formed will not be disthct
    2. Eye should be placed at a distance of distinct vision (25 cm) from the image pin.

    Note: The pin which is taken as an object is called object pin


    The pin which used to locate the position of image is called image pin

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    NARAYANA PUCOLLEGES

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