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Wave motion and the concave mirror

The diagram above (Figure 1) shows the reflection of a plane wave from a concave mirror. Notice that the curvature of the reflected wave is greater than the curvature of the mirror and that there is no change in the wavelength of the waves on reflection.

 

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