Why does a ray of light passing through the centre of curvature of a concave mirror gets reflected along same path after reflection?

When ray of light passes through the center of curvature of the concave mirror it strikes along the normal that means it is incident on mirror at 90°.

Thus by the law of reflection which states that the angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection i.e. 90°.


Hence the incident ray coincides with the normal and retraces its path after reflection from the spherical mirror.


The figure below illustrates the above situation.



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