Answer to Question #46978 in Optics for victor

Question #46978

The focal length of a curved mirror is -------- the radius of the spherical surface.
twice
equal to
half
one-quater

Expert's answer

By the geometry of the curvedmirrors, all rays which parallel to the optical axis will gather in the point
which is half of spherical surface of the radius

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