Things in a mirror are not actually backward. The fact that your brain processes things as "backward" is a trick your brain plays on itself, because it thinks that the only way you could possibly be seeing the backside of an object is if you were standing inside the mirror looking out. But in reality, you see what you see only from where you are, and nowhere else... even the things you see in the mirror.
In reality, things in a mirror are reflected directly back to you, so that something that's on your left also appears on your left in the mirror. It's not backward: rather, it's exactly the way it would appear to you if you could see the backside of the object you're looking at, but without turning yourself or the object around in order to see it. How could you do that? Well, try imagining what the backside of the object would look like from where you're standing, if you could see through the object like it was semi-transparent. It would look exactly the way it looks in the mirror!
Another way to think of this is: the reason things (particularly words) look backward in a mirror, is quite simply because they have to be turned around backward (relative to where you're seeing them from) in order for the mirror to reflect them to you!
To convince yourself of this, do a very simple experiment with an object you can actually see through: Get a translucent plastic grocery bag with writing on it. Either fold or cut the bag so that by turning it over, you can see either the outside or the inside of the printed part of the bag, depending which way you have it turned.
Now, in front of a mirror, hold the bag up facing you, so that you can read the words on the outside of the bag normally. Look in the mirror without moving the bag. You can read the words in the mirror, too!
Next, turn the bag around, as though you are "showing" the outside of the bag to the mirror. When you look in the mirror, of course the words look backward, just like you expect. But now, without moving the bag, look at the bag itself. The words on the bag appear backward to you, too, exactly like they do in the mirror! They look backward literally because you turned the bag around backward. And in this case, you actually can see through the bag, to see what the bag looks like from where you're standing when you have it turned around.
Convex mirrors are often used for side mirrors (if the mirror has a note saying "objects in mirror are closer than they appear," it's convex; it may be convex even without such a note).
I guess it is because of preception.... if your standing about a metre away from the mirror... it will appear your reflection is a metre behind the mirror
you appear to be reflected
A concave mirror will focus an image and make it appear smaller. A convex mirror will disperse an image and make it appear larger.
Magnifing glass does nothing to the objects but they prepare images of objects that are larzer than objects. U can take example of distorting mirror when mirror produce image it dont do any distortion to the objects but the image produced is distorted
Because they appear backward.
The cast of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear - 2008 includes: Zay Nuba
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are was created in 1994.
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear - 2010 was released on: USA: 18 April 2012
The cast of Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear - 2006 includes: Pepe Batista Maykol Hernandez as Dependiente
The cast of Objects in the Mirror Are Further Than They Appear - 2003 includes: Darielle Gilad as Midori Mary Remington as Narrator
Because they are.
Max Layton has written: 'Objects in mirror are closer than they appear'
put a mirror next to it. Its pretty simple the letters are formed backward. I can write in all four directions in cursive. Forward, backward, upside-down forward, and upside-down backward.
Car rear view mirrors carry a warning message that states objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear because this is true. When looking into a rear view mirror, distance is added to the rear view. The warning is there for protective measures.
If the mirror housing is ok, A glass shop can sell you a replacement mirror with double sided tape to replace the broken one. It even says "objects in mirror are closer than they appear"
It is because from the point of view of the driver, the virtual image created by the convex (diverging) mirror subtends a smaller angle than a plane mirror.