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AP Physics 2
13.2 Images Formed by Mirrors
13.1 Reflection
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Side-view diagram showing three vertical mirrors facing an observer's eye located at a distance d to the right on the horizontal principal axis. Mirror X is convex curving away from the eye. Mirror Y is a straight vertical line representing a plane mirror. Mirror Z is concave curving toward the eye. Each mirror has identical vertical width W. At the top edge of each mirror, a dashed line represents the local surface normal: tilted upward for Mirror X, horizontal for Mirror Y, and tilted downward for Mirror Z. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Three mirrors of aperture W viewed by an observer at distance d along the principal axis.
An observer's eye is positioned at a fixed distance \(d\) along the principal axis in front of three different optical mirrors, each having the same physical aperture width \(W\). Mirror \(X\) is convex, Mirror \(Y\) is a flat plane mirror, and Mirror \(Z\) is concave with a radius of curvature greater than \(2d\). Which of the following correctly ranks the field of view \(\theta\) (the total angular region of space visible to the observer through the mirror) provided by each mirror?

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