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Chapter 32 Problem 30

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CONTEXT-RICH Convex mirrors are used in many stores to provide a wide angle of surveillance for a reasonable mirror size. Your summer job is at a local convenience store that uses the mirror shown in Figure 32-58. This setup allows you (or the clerk) to survey the entire store when you are from the mirror. The mirror has a radius of curvature equal to Assume all rays are paraxial. (a) If a customer is from the mirror, how far from the mirror is his image? (b) Is the image in front of or behind the mirror? (c) If the customer is 2.0 m tall, how tall is his image?

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Title Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 6 
Author Paul A. Tipler, Gene Mosca
ISBN 9781429201247

CONTEXT-RICH Convex mirrors are used in many stores to

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