A concave mirror of focal length 10cm. A square wire of side 3cm is placed 23cm away from the mirror. The centre of the square lies on the principal axis. What is the area enclosed by the image?

1 Answer
Sep 19, 2017

We know that conjugate foci relation of spherical mirror Is as follows

#1/v+1/u=1/f#,

Where

#v->"image distance"=?#

#u->"object distance"=-23cm#

#f->"focal length"=-10cm#

#1/v-1/23=-1/10#

#=>v=-230/13# cm

Magnification #m=v/u=(230/13)/23=10/13#

Length of each side of the square frame is #3# cm

If the plane of the square wire frame is kept vertical with the principal axis the length of each side of its image will be #3xx10/13=30/13# cm

Hence area enclosed by the image will be #(30/13)^2cm^2~~5.33 cm^2#