Mirrors with curved surfaces can be modelled by ray tracing and using the law of reflection at each point on the surface. For mirrors with parabolic surfaces, parallel rays incident on the mirror produce reflected rays that converge at a common focus. Other curved surfaces may also focus light, but with aberrations due to the diverging shape causing the focus to be smeared out in space. In particular, spherical mirrors exhibit spherical aberration. Curved mirrors can form images with a magnification greater than or less than one, and the magnification can be negative, indicating that the image is inverted. An upright image formed by reflection in a mirror is always virtual, while an inverted image is real and can be projected onto a screen.
mirrors with curved surfaces can be modelled by ray tracing and using the law of reflection at each point on the surface for mirrors with parabolic surfaces parallel rays incident on the mirror produce reflected rays that converge at a common focus other curved surfaces may also focus light but with aberrations due to the diverging shape causing the focus to be smeared out in space in particular spherical mirrors exhibit spherical aberration curved mirrors can form images with a magnification greater than or less than one and the magnification can be negative indicating that the image is inverted an upright image formed by reflection in a mirror is always virtual while an inverted image is real and can be projected onto a screen