The writing on the passenger-side mirror of your car says "Warning! Objects are closer than they appear." There is no such warning on the driver's mirror. Consider a typical convex passenger-side mirror with a focal length of -80 cm . A 1.5 m -tall cyclist on a bicycle is 30 m from the mirror. You are 1.4 m from the mirror, and suppose, for simplicity, that the mirror, you, and the cyclist all lie along a line.
- You are 2.2 m from the image of the cyclist
A) What is the image height?
B) What would the image height have been if the mirror were flat?
C) What is the angular size of the image of the cyclist?
D) What would the angular size of the cyclist's image have been if the mirror were flat?
E) Explain why is there a warning label on the passenger-side mirror?