An object sits at the centre of curvature of a concave mirror with a 16 cm focal length. If it’s then moved 8 cm closer, toward the focus, what happens to its image?

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1. An object sits at the centre of curvature of a concave mirror with a 16 cm focal length. If it’s then moved 8 cm closer, toward the focus, what happens to its image?

It becomes real and magnified

It becomes virtual and magnified

It becomes real and reduced

It becomes virtual and reduced

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The object was originally at 32 cm (twice the focal length). Moving it 8 cm closer places it at 24 cm — between the centre of curvature and the focus — where a concave mirror forms a real, magnified image.