xpln,why a ray of l8 passing through d centre of curvature of a concave mirror gets reflacted back along d same path

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This is because any line from the principal axis to the mirror will act as a normal to the tangent at the point on the mirror. Hence, any ray along the line will be reflected along the normal, and essentially along the same path.

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