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Parabolas
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Parabolas
Wide beam of light can be concentrated onto a small object
Uses
- Reflectors used with electric lights
- to concentrate light into a broad or narrow beam
- the reverse of the other uses
- to concentrate light into a broad or narrow beam
- Radio telescopes
- to concentrate very faint signals from the far universe
- Concentrators
- that focus sunlight to increase the output of electricity producing solar cells
- to focus sunlight to boil water to run a steam-turbine to create electricity
- Satellite dishes
- to concentrate signals arriving on earth from satellites in earth's orbit
- Reflectors used with electric lights
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- Mind Map on Parabolas, created by msday on 17/08/2014.
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- msday
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