The writing on the passenger-side mirror of your car says "Warning! Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" (Figu

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The writing on the passenger-side mirror of your car says "Warning! Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" (Figu

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The writing on the passenger-side mirror of your car says"Warning! Objects in mirror are closer than theyappear" (Figure 1). There is no such warning on thedriver's mirror. Consider a typical convex passenger-side mirrorwith a focal length of -80 cmcm. A1.8-mm-tall cyclist on a bicycle is 29 mm fromthe mirror. You are 1.0 mm from the mirror, andsuppose, for simplicity, that the mirror, you, and the cyclist alllie along a line.
a. How far are you from the image of the cyclist? L =?
b. How far would you have been from the image if the mirrorwere flat? Lf = ?
c. What is the image height? h' = ?
d. What would the image height have been if the mirror wereflat? h'f = ?
e. The mirror at the passenger's side is often convex tomake the viewing angle ... smaller or larger?
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