Question

Dentists use curved mirrors to view teeth inside of patients’ mouths. Suppose a dentist wants a magnification of +2.00 when the mirror is 1.25 cm from a tooth. The tooth’s actual size is 0.65 cm.

1. A magnification of +2.00 means that the image is _upright/ inverted_ and is _larger/ smaller_ than the object.

2. The dentist wants to view the tooth “in the mirror,” which means that the image must be _real/ virtual_ and that the image distance is _positive/ negative_. For a mirror, the positive side is the _reflecting/ back_ side. So, the tooth image is located on the _reflecting/ back_ side of the mirror.

3. Dentists use curved mirrors to view teeth inside of patients’ mouths. Suppose a dentist wants a magnification of +2.00 when the mirror is 1.25 cm from a tooth. The tooth’s actual size is 0.65 cm.

4. What is the size of the tooth image and its distance from the mirror

5. What is the curvature of the mirror

Answer 1