Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but I have trouble understanding the concave mirror diagrams.
For example, a candle is resting on the ground(the principal axis), they will draw the reflected candle as if it’s not even in the mirror and it’s underneath the ground. I get confused and ask myself, “How can a candle reflect in the ground? And how can the light rays go through the ground?”
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It wouldn’t actually be visible if the ground were there. All you would be able to see in the mirror would be the ground. Instead, what we are looking at is the candle in isolation. It’s just to show you that the image is inverted and in real space, and therefore, a real image.
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