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Application for concave mirror and convex mirror?
Concave mirrors are used in telescopes. Convex mirrors are used as side-view mirrors in cars.
What is important in concave and convex mirror?
Concave and convex mirrors allow greater area of view or detailed examination of smaller areas.
What is concave mirror?
A mirror in which the face dips in. As opposed to a convex mirror in which the face is rounded out for a wider view.
What types of images are produced by a concave mirror?
A concave mirror is dished in ward. A convex mirror domed. Both images will be distorted in size from actuality. A convex mirror will give a wider view of what you are looking at in the mirror. A concave mirror will compress and magnify the image being viewed.
Is a dental mirror concave or convex?
concave mirrors are used as dental mirrors. this is because concave mirrors produce highly magnified images which is useful in obtaining larger view of teeth and gums.
What type of mirror is a side view mirror?
Its called a Convex Mirror
Why do you use concave mirrors on the passenger side?
Actually it is a convex mirror, it bulges out in the center. This increases the field of view from a normal flat mirror so that you can see more area from side to side. So that you can see to the rear and to the side into the blind spot. concave is shaped like the inside of a bowl. Convex is shaped like the outside of a bowl or dome. The hint is to think "cave" inside a cave or bowl so conCAVE
Why is convex mirror preferred over concave or plane mirror to use as a rear view mirrors in vehicles?
Convex gives you the widest "field of view" (so someone does not have to be right behind you in order for you to see them).
Are car mirrors convex or concave?
The Rear view mirrors are convex The Headlights are concave
Five difference between a concave mirrors and convex mirrors?
Concave Vs Convex 1. Mercury coating will be made on the convex side but here on concave side. So reflecting portion would become concave and here convex 2. Both real and virtual images but only virtual images 3. Both diminished, enlarged and even same size images formed but only diminished. 4. Both inverted (real) and erect (virtual) images but only erect images. 5. Used as shaving mirror and in telescopes but used as rear view mirror
How do images formed by a concave lens and convex mirror compare?
Both give diminished, virtual, erect image. Hence convex mirror is used as rear view glass in case of vehicles near by the drivers. Concave lens is used to correct short sightedness.
How is a concave mirror shaped differently from a plane mirror?
A normal mirror is flat, like this: l . A concave mirror on the other hand, has a slight inward curve, like this: ( . And, if you're interested, a convex mirror has a slight outward curve, like this: ) . This is to provide a wider view.
