Question

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

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

Answer 1

Answer: (B), (D)

image distance to the object distance.

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