What are the types of mirrors?
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A concave mirror is a converging mirror which works much like a convex lens. A concave mirror bends further away in the middle than at the edges, like the inside of bowl. The image produced is dependent on the positioning of the object being viewed in the mirror. If the object is beyond 2F, the image is real, inverted, and reduced, at 2F real, inverted, the same height, between F and 2F real, inverted, and magnified, at F there is no image, and closer then F the image is virtual, erect, and magnified.
A convex mirror is a diverging mirror that works like a concave mirror. This is the opposite of a concave mirror, bending further away at the edges than in the middle like the outside of a bowl. Convex mirrors always produce virtual, erect, reduced images. These do suffer from spherical aberration, which is why you cant see images well one a perfectly spherical reflective surface, which is why parabolic mirrors have been adopted, these do not suffer the same effect.
Plane mirrors are simple straight up mirrors. In a plane mirror, the image is always virtual and the same size as the object.