Four Steps to Drawing Ray Diagrams Plane mirror ray diagrams show how light travels from an object to the mirror to an eye in order for the
eye to view the image of the object. There are four steps to the construction of a ray diagram.
i.
Draw the image of the object.
ii. Pick one extreme on the image of the object and draw the reflected ray that will travel to the eye
as the eye sights at this point.
iii. Draw the incident ray for light traveling from the corresponding extreme on the object to the
mirror.
iv. Repeat steps ii and iii for all other extremities on the object.
Locating Images
1. Locate all of the images for the following objects (labeled "o") as produced by the mirror (labeled
"m"). Consider steps 1 and 2 above.
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