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Why magnification is taken negative for real images and positive for virtual images?

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Answered by varsha5160
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Magnification is the ratio between the height of the object and the height of the image. In the case of a real image, the height of the object carries a positive sign while the height of the image carries a negative one. Hence the magnification is negative. ... Therefore, the magnification is positive in this case

Answered by Anonymous
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because real images are inverted in nature.

inverted images are are taken negative...that's why magnification of real images is taken negative

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