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What is virtual image? When it is formed? [3 MARKS]

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When an image cannot be obtained on a screen, it is called as virtual image.


A virtual image is an image formed when the outgoing rays from a point on an object always diverge. The image appears to be located at the point of apparent divergence. Because the rays never really converge, a virtual image cannot be projected onto a screen.


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