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Why does a broken mirror show multiple images and not a single one?
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∙ 14y ago
It is a matter of angles. If you took pieces of a broken mirror and pasted them onto a flat surface, so that all the pieces were once again on the same plane as they were originally, there would be only one image in the incomplete mirror-- even if there are large gaps where there are no mirror pieces. You would see one "image" of yourself and it would look you are seeing yourself through a mosaic. Your eyes might be in one piece, mouth and chin might be in another, etc. But all of the sections of the image would be in the right positions relative to each other. Change the angles of the pieces, and it is something like having several different mirrors. Each "plane" represented by a single piece will be like a mirror in itself, and you will appear in that piece as you would in a full-size mirror on the same plane.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoIn a broken mirror, the pieces of mirror are aligned at different angles. As light is reflected off a mirror piece at the same angle as with which it hits the surface, and the pieces have different orientation, they will reflect different images.
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