A small piece of wire bent into an L shape with upright and horizontal portions of equal lengths, is placed with the horizontal portion along the axis of the concave mirror whose radius of curvature is 10 cm. If the bend is 20 cm from the pole of the mirror, then the ratio of the lengths of the images of the upright and horizontal portions of the wire is -
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Focal length of mirror f = 
= 
= 5 cm
Part PQ → transverse magnification
length of image L 1 = 
× L 0
= 
L 0 = – 
For part QR : – longitudinal magnification
length of image L 2 = 
L 0 = 
So 
= 
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