mirage
mirror it's self!
mirage mirror it's self!
It's a virtual reflection of the object which appears as an image as much behind the mirror as the distance of the object in front.
behind you
An image that is laterally inverted.
You see yourself.
An upright, virtual image of yourself the same size as you.
This image is always located in front of the lens.
If light hits a mirror at an angle it reflects back at you but it will make the image look bigger or smaller (if the mirror is concave or convex). If it is a flat plane mirror the image is the same but if your holding something it will be on the opposite side
Plane mirrors(regular mirrors in households) laterally invert an object's image; letters are also laterally inverted and so they look different while seen in a mirror.
Letters with bilateral symmetry about a vertical plane, such as H, appear the same in a mirror. Others do not because the image is laterally inverted.
If you look at something in front of you, light bouncing off that thing enters your eye and you say you can see the object. If now you put a mirror between you and the object, and if you move around you can find a place where you can see it "in the mirror". The object appears to be "through the mirror". The light rays have been bent through angles, but your eye is deceived to believe the object is behind the mirror. It is called a virtual image, because there is nothing to be found at the apparent place where the light appears to come from. That apparent source is called the virtual image. In lenses, the light is bent in such a way that it appears to the eye to come from a place different from the true position of the object. Also a virtual image. Incidentally, when you "see" anything, it is because your eye lens has focused light rays onto your retina. Just like a camera lens focusses onto the image plane (film or sensor chip). That focussed image is a real image. If you look at the sun, it will burn a hole in your retina, the shape of the sun.
The image location is where the observer is sighting when viewing the image.