Side Rear-View Mirror · CAP 2002 #3

Physics · optics

Problem

In the movie Jurassic Park, as a jeep is being pursued by a dinosaur, one can see the animal in the jeep's side rear-view mirror on which is printed: "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." Then, (a) the mirror is flat. (b) the mirror is concave. (c) the mirror is convex. (d) the mirror could be either convex or concave.

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