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

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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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