Spherical Mirror Equation Calculator implementation

Binding contract

This record describes what an executable surface must bind and validate. It does not claim that a public calculator, package, or production route is deployed.

Record owner

Guth Instruments

Lifecycle

verified-clean

Evidence ID

t5-123

Effect

Computation or source lookup only

Input and validation requirements

The specification admits zero-radius and do=f inputs that produce undefined results, and it leaves the sign convention for convex mirrors implicit. An implementation that performs plain arithmetic without validation or explicit sign-convention handling can return division-by-zero errors or physically incorrect image results.

Required corrections

No binding erratum is attached to this unique-name record. Implementers must still preserve the declared units, domain, and failure behavior.

Inspectable interface fixture

The sample below is evidence for interface and validation tests, not a production implementation.

{
  "inputs": {
    "mirror_type": "concave",
    "R": "40 cm",
    "object_distance": "60 cm",
    "sign_convention": "real-is-positive"
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "f": "20 cm",
    "di": "30 cm",
    "m": -0.5,
    "image_characteristics": "real, inverted, diminished"
  },
  "working": "f=R/2=40/2=20 cm. 1/di=1/f−1/do=1/20−1/60=3/60−1/60=2/60=1/30 cm⁻¹, so di=30 cm. m=−di/do=−30/60=−1/2=−0.5. Since di>0, the image is real; since m<0, it is inverted; since |m|<1, it is diminished."
}

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Sources and evidence

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• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json
• evidence-tranche5/tranche5-results.json