Consider a spherical wavefront incident on a plane mirror. After reflection, we will get,
A
a spherical wavefront
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B
a plane wavefront
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C
Insufficient information
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D
a cylindrical wavefront
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Solution
The correct option is A a spherical wavefront As a result of reflection, there is no change in shape of the wavefront. i.e. a spherical wavefront is reflected as a spherical wavefront.