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The law of reflection is valid for any ray of light. So it is also valid for curved and flat surfaces. For curved surfaces, the normal is taken as the normal to the tangent of the point where the light ray hits the surface.
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What is the difference of curved mirror and flat mirror?
the curved mirrors are trick mirrors and flat mirrors are the one's that you use at home
What are flat MIRRORS used for and what do they do?
Flat mirrors are the commonest type, and provide a reflection of the subject. Useful for shaving in and for checking my clothes. They just reflect the light that falls on them. An interesting experiment you can do is to get a couple of flat mirrors and erect them at 90o to each other. If you look in these, you will see a reflection of you that is as other folk see you. The best version of this uses frameless mirrors.
What is difference between plane mirror and mirror?
A plane mirror is FLAT, whereas mirrors can be also convex (as with the back of a spoon) or concave (as is the case with the inside of a spoon). In other words, mirrors can be CURVED.
What do you call flat mirrors?
A flat mirror is also called a plane mirror
Why do images produced by two opposing flat mirrors apperar to be progressively smaller?
The mirrors are different sizes
What is the difference of curved mirror and flat mirror?
the curved mirrors are trick mirrors and flat mirrors are the one's that you use at home
How do flat mirrors and curved mirrors reflect light?
how do mirrors reflect light
What are mirrors with a flat surface?
to make an reflection
Why is it that the side mirrors in vehicles are curved mirrors?
convex (curved) mirrors show more space than flat mirrors do also the images are smaller than they really are
Why do mirrors make such a good reflection?
because of the flat surface
Would Images formed by curved mirrors will look identical to to the images formed by flat mirrors?
No. They will look different.
What are flat MIRRORS used for and what do they do?
Flat mirrors are the commonest type, and provide a reflection of the subject. Useful for shaving in and for checking my clothes. They just reflect the light that falls on them. An interesting experiment you can do is to get a couple of flat mirrors and erect them at 90o to each other. If you look in these, you will see a reflection of you that is as other folk see you. The best version of this uses frameless mirrors.
Do all mirrors have flat surfaces?
No; I have a convex mirror that is a x 10 magnification, great for plucking eyebrows I can tell you and it is curved.
What is difference between plane mirror and mirror?
A plane mirror is FLAT, whereas mirrors can be also convex (as with the back of a spoon) or concave (as is the case with the inside of a spoon). In other words, mirrors can be CURVED.
In what way does the law of reflection hold for curved mirrors?
No. I don't honestly know why just that it doesn't because my teacher said so but she could be wrong. Some teachers can be pretty stupid. Yes of course. Don't spew nonsense. It's a LAW. All you have to do to prove this point, is to draw a semi-major axis, aka tangent to any point on the curved surface, draw the normal, then reflect the incoming ray. If you do this for parallel rays coming onto the curved surface, you'll realize that the reflected rays converge at one point, the focal point, because the curved mirror acts as a lens as well.
Do mirrors sometimes make things look bigger than they really are?
They can if they are curved inward (concave). We frequently see this in make-up mirrors that have a flat, or "regular" side, and a concave side that magnifies the image one sees in it.
How many flat surfaces and curved surfaces does a cylinder have?
2 flat and 1 curved
