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Uses of Spherical Mirror Based on the Image Formed

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How do you appreciate the use of reflection of light by a concave mirror in making of TV antenna dishes?

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In TV antenna dish concave mirror is used to concentrate the parallel beam of signals coming to the receiver situated at its focus.

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