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it is told tat the concave mirrors are real and virtuall so in real image it says it can be obtained on a screen or wall on the other hand virtual imagee cannot be obtained on the screen so how can it be both virtual and real

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This depend on the position of the object, when object is placed between the focus and the pole of the mirror image formed is the virtual and in all other cases, image formed is real.

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