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What do you mean by aperture of a spherical mirror?? How do you measure it, is its units like cm, m??

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Aperture is the diameter of the part of the mirror that is exposed to light. This is how much light the mirror is able to focus.Since, it is measured by the height of the mirror. It's unit may be m or cm.

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