Name the mirror which acts as (i) a convergent mirror and (ii) divergent mirror.
Copy the figure in your answer-book and show the direction of light
after reflection.
Answers
Explanation:
In this diagram five incident rays are drawn along with their corresponding reflected rays. Each ray intersects at the image location and then diverges to the eye of an observer. Every observer would observe the same image location and every light ray would follow the law of reflection. Yet only two of these rays would be needed to determine the image location since it only requires two rays to find the intersection point. Of the five incident rays drawn, two of them correspond to the incident rays described by our two rules of reflection for concave mirrors. Because they are the easiest and most predictable pair of rays to draw, these will be the two rays used through the remainder of this lesson.
Answer:
Concave mirrors converge light to one prime focus point. Therefore, they are also called converging mirrors.