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Suppose you stand in front of a spherical mirror (either concave or convex in curvature). Is...

Suppose you stand in front of a spherical mirror (either concave or convex in curvature). Is it possible for your image to be (a) real and upright or (b) virtual and inverted in any situation? Justify your answer by listing the possible images produced and illustrated with ray diagrams.

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It is not possible for the image to be real and upright or virtual and inverted in any situation.

All possible images produced by convex mirror are shown below:

All possible images produced by concave mirror are shown below

In none of the illustrations above, were the images produced (a) real and upright or (b) virtual and inverted .

Hence it is impossible for an image of a curved mirror to be (a) real and upright or (b) virtual and inverted

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