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If a spherical mirror breaks, what type of the mirrors are the individual pieces?

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If a spherical mirror breaks, what type of the mirrors are the individual pieces?

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After breaking of the spherical mirror there will be no change in the nature of the mirror.

That means if the concave mirror is broken into pieces then each piece also acts as a concave mirror.

While if convex mirror is broken into pieces then each piece of it acts as the convex mirror only.

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