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When an object is illuminated, light rays scatter off it in all directions. Any rays that strike a flat mirror will reflect, but continue to diverge in a disorganized way. If some of these rays enter a human eye, the lens/cornea will stop them diverging and start them converging. This focusing process ensures that all rays emanating from a single point on the object arrive at a single point on the retina. However, the brain makes no allowance for the change of direction at the mirror and perceives the rays to have originated from an object behind the mirror. This apparent object is is called the virtual image of the mirror. It can only be viewed with the help of a converging lens, such as that in the eye, which forms a real image on the retina.
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What image formed by a plane mirror?
The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual image.
Which best describes the type of image formed by a plane mirror?
The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual, upright, and laterally inverted.
What kind of image is formed in the plane mirror?
An image in a plane mirror is created by the light rays reflecting off the reflective surface of a mirror. The image is always virtual because the light rays remain parallel, meaning they never pass through a focal point. The image is actual size, inverted, and always virtual. When light strikes a plane mirror, the angle of incidence will always equal the angle of reflection.
Images formed by a plane mirror?
A plane mirror forms 1 virtual image and no real image. The virtual image is behind the mirror, at the same distance as the object in front of the mirror, erect, in mirror image left-right.
Why does image formed in a plane mirror is always virtual?
the ray that passes from the object, when gets reflected from the plane mirror,the imaginary ray that passes from the mirror meets at a point behind mirror but the original do not meet actually.so the image formed by plane mirror is virtual.
What is the nature of images formed in a plane mirror?
Images formed in a plane mirror are virtual, upright, and laterally inverted. They appear to be the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of it, and the size of the image is equal to the size of the object.
How can you describe the image formed by a plane mirror?
The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual, upright, and laterally inverted. It appears to be the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of it.
Pictures of real image formed by plane mirror?
When the incident light rays are falling towards the mirror in such a way that the light rays after falling on the mirror meet at any point in front of the mirror than an image is formed in front of the mirror which can be taken on a screen and as the image can be taken on a screen it is known as a real image. So, plane mirrors can form real images.
Describe the image form mirror by a plane mirror?
The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual, upright, and the same size as the object. The image appears to be behind the mirror at the same distance as the object is in front of the mirror. The orientation of the image is laterally inverted, meaning left and right are switched.
How can you describe the image formed by a plane mirrir?
The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual, upright, and laterally inverted. It is the same size as the object and appears to be located behind the mirror at the same distance as the object is in front of the mirror.
Describe the image formed in a plane mirror?
image form by plane mirror are virtual,upright,left- right reversed,the same distance from the mirror as the object's distance,and the same size as the object.............that's all
Is the image you see in a plane mirror a real image or a virtual image?
virtual :-)
