Question

Magnification produced by a spherical mirror is the ratio of the ______.

• A. object distance to the image distance.
• B. image distance to the object distance.
• C. height of the image to the height of the object.
• D. height of the object to the height of the image.

Answer 1

Answer: (B), (C)

height of the image to the height of the object.

Magnification produced by the spherical mirror is given as the ratio of the height of the image to the height of the object.
$m=\frac{h^{\prime }}{h}=-\frac{v}{u}$