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Radius of Curvature of the Mirror

The image of a very distant car is located 24 cm behind a convex mirror. What is the radius of curvature of the mirror?

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For each lens, we can specify a "radius of curvature" for each curved face. Radius of curvature is that ...

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radius of curvature of the mirror

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