Why can you not use a concave mirror as a rear-view mirror in vehicles?


We cannot use a concave mirror as a rear-view mirror in vehicles because it forms an inverted image of the distant objects (object at a large distance), due to which all the vehicles will be seen running upside down in the mirror. Also, a concave mirror has an extremely small field of view, which means it can form very few images of many objects at the same time. 

Explanation

In a concave mirror, when an object is at distant or at infinity then the image forms at the focus. The nature of the image is real & inverted, and its size is highly diminished.


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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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