When triangle ABC is reflected across line AB, the image is triangle ABD. Why are segments AD and segment AC congruent?

First of all, AD is congruent to segment AC because the reflection is a rigid transformation. A rigid transformation is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves the Euclidean distance between every pair of points. The rigid transformations include rotations, translations, reflections, or any sequence of these.
Therefore if we reflect △ABC across AB, the new triangle △ABD will be congruent to the triangle △ABC:
[tex]\Delta ABC\cong\Delta ABD[/tex]By CPCTC theorem, corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent
Answer:
Corresponding parts of congruent figures are congruent