Assertion: mirror's surface | /r/HasProperty | spherical
Facets:
value: in flying relativistic mirrors
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Curved mirrors in ordinary usage have surfaces that are spherical, cylindrical, paraboloidal, ellipsoidal, and hyperboloidal.
text: In flying relativistic mirrors conceived for X-ray lasers, the reflecting surface is a spherical shockwave (wake wave) created in a in a low-density plasma by a very intense laser-pulse, and moving at an extremely high velocity.
text: A convex mirror is a spherical reflecting surface (or any reflecting surface fashioned into a portion of a sphere) in which its bulging side faces the source of light.
text: Such mirrors may have surfaces that are spherical or parabolic.