Convex mirror ray diagram

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A ray diagram of a convex mirror with F and C behind it; the reflected rays spread out and their dashed extensions meet behind the mirror at a small, upright, virtual image — A convex mirror of focal length 10 cm, its F and C behind it, with an object 20 cm in front. Each ray reflects outward: the parallel one as if from F, the one heading for F back parallel, the one heading for C back on itself, and the one at the vertex at the same angle. Dashed extensions meet behind the mirror at the virtual, upright, smaller image.

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Image distance: −6.7 cm, magnification: +0.33
Virtual, upright, diminished, behind the mirror

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