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An inverted image is formed in a pinhole camera because the light rays coming from the top and the bottom of the object intersect at the pinhole.

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Why the image formed on the screen of the pinhole camera is inverted?

The image formed on the screen of the pinhole camera is inverted because the aperture, which is a small hole, bends the light that enters the camera. This basically shows that light travels in straight line.


Image formed by a pinhole camera?

Pin holiday camera light travels in straight lines


What part of the eye is the inverted image formed?

The inverted or upside-down image is formed on the retina.


On what part of the eye is inverted image formed?

The cornea and lens of the eye form a real, inverted image on the retina.


How are pinhole cameras used in everyday life?

It literally takes long-exposure photos through a pinhole that projects an inverted image into a darkened box.


Pinhole camera and human eye similarities?

I think a pinhole camera is similar to the human eye because like the pinhole camera when it sees something it reflects the image but it is an inverted image. With the human eye the brain corrects it and turns it the right way up. The pinhole cameras image is not corrected because it does not have a lens.


Is image formed from microscope inverted or laterally inverted or just upside down?

It is laterally inverted. (:


How the image formed in concave?

Real, reduced, and inverted.


Is a stereoscope related to a pinhole camera?

no stereoscope are the glasses we use while watching 3-d movies and pinhole camera shows the image of anything on the other side which is inverted and enlarged


How and when is the image inverted?

Whenever a real image is formed by a real object,the image is always inverted. for eg when light rays from infinity falls on convex lens it forms a real and inverted image at focal plane.


Is the image formed by a convex mirror laterally inverted?

yes


What is the difference between the image formed on the retina and the object being looked at other than the size?

The image formed at the retina is always real and inverted but the brain interprets it as erect. the object you see will not be inverted.