Spherical mirrors

Now, we are in a position to proceed further and learn about spherical mirrors.

• Spherical Mirrors

There are mainly two types of Spherical mirrors, which are as follows...

1. Concave Mirror

A concave mirror or a converging mirror has a reflecting surface which bulges inwards. They reflect light inward to one focal point. They are used to focus light and show different images types depending on the object and the mirror. These mirrors are called converging because they tend to collect light which falls on them.They are used to provide a magnified and inverted image of the object. Here are some examples....

Concave mirrors are mainly used to obtain Real, Magnified and Inverted images.

   2. Convex Mirror or diverging mirror

A Convex mirror is a spherical reflecting surface or any reflecting surface fashioned into a sphere in which its bulging side faces the source of light. the term " diverging mirror " is based on the mirror's behaviour of making rays diverge upon reflection. So when you direct a beam of light on a convex mirror, the mirror will allow the initial parallel rays that make up the beam to diverge after striking the reflective  surface.

So, this was all about spherical mirrors.

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