Concave-Planar-Convex

• What happens as we change the curvature of the mirror?

  • Plane mirror:
    • R = ¥

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upright (non-inverted)

http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys112/fall97/acts/lect25/act25b/sld001.htm

• Convex mirror:
  • R < 0

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