Q. 9.15 (b) Use the mirror equation to deduce that:
a convex mirror always produces a virtual image independent of the location of the object.
In a convex mirror focal length is positive conventionally.
so we have mirror equation
Here, since object distance is always negative whenever we put our object in the left side of the convex mirror(which we always do, generally). So is always the sum of two positive quantity(negative sign in the equation and negative sign of the will always make positive) and hence we conclude that is always greater than zero which means the image is always on the right side of the mirror which means it is a virtual image. Therefore, a convex lens will always produce a virtual image regardless of anything.