Physics WebAssign Ch23 #10

At an intersection of hospital hallways, a convex spherical mirror is mounted high on a wall to help people avoid collisions. The magnitude of the mirror's radius of curvature is 0.548 m.

(a) Locate the image of a patient 11.0 m from the mirror. (Use the correct sign conventions.)
_____cm (from the mirror)

(b) Indicate whether the image is upright or inverted.
upright
inverted

(c) Determine the magnification of the image.
_____

[chloe]

I just wanted to let you know that the first equation you came up with is incorrect. We need to remember that f= --R/2. You used a positve R with threw off the equation for q. It should be 1/q= --(2/R)--(1/p).