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2.8 Exercise 25

Avg difficulty 2.5

Unless otherwise stated, the lens-to-retina distance is 2.00 cm.

A light bulb is placed 10 cm from a plane mirror, which faces a convex mirror of radius of curvature 8 cm. The plane mirror is located at a distance of 30 cm from the vertex of the convex mirror. Find the location of two images in the convex mirror. Are there other images? If so, where are they located?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 3, 2.8 Microscopes and Telescopes, exercise 25

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