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Image position and size by a spherical mirror (mirror formula)

This type of question, asked 3 times: 2021 Paper 20, 1 Feb 2023, 2 Apr 2025. All 3 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    2021 Paper 20

    7
    An object is placed beyond the centre of curvature CC of the given concave mirror. If the distance of the object is d1d_{1} from CC and the distance of the image formed is d2d_{2} from CC, the radius of curvature of this mirror is:

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  2. Question 2

    1 Feb 2023

    96
    Two objects A and B are placed at 15 cm15\text{ }cm and 25 cm25\text{ }cm from the pole in front of a concave mirror having radius of curvature 40 cm40\text{ }cm. The distance between images formed by the mirror is

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  3. Question 3

    2 Apr 2025

    89
    Two identical objects are placed in front of convex mirror and concave mirror having same radii of curvature of 12 cm , at same distance of 18 cm from the respective mirrors. The ratio of sizes of the images formed by convex mirror and by concave mirror is :

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