Conicoid Mirrors
Popular Physics
2015-05-20 v1
Abstract
The first order equation relating object and image location for a mirror of arbitrary conic-sectional shape is derived. It is also shown that the parabolic reflecting surface is the only one free of aberration and only in the limiting case of distant sources.
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@article{arxiv.1010.0708,
title = {Conicoid Mirrors},
author = {Diego J. Castano and Lawrence Hawkins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0708},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages