Is there a trick? If your eyes are 52cm from the plane of the mirror (which also is where the image is) then by consequence 52cm is the answer.... where the butterfly is or isn't is not relevant so long as its image is in the mirror.
The distance between the image and the plane mirror is the same as the distance between the object and the mirror. Therefore, if the object is 15m away from the mirror, the image will also be 15m behind the mirror.
Same distance behind mirror.
The distance between the object and mirror is 15 mm. The distance between the image and mirror is 15 mm. Therefore, the distance between the image and object is 15 mm plus 15 mm which equals 30 mm.
The image seen in a plane mirror appears to be the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of it. This is because light rays reflect off the mirror and create a virtual image that appears behind the mirror at the same distance.
In a plane mirror, the image distance (di) is equal to the object distance (do). The image formed is virtual, upright, and the same size as the object, and it appears behind the mirror at the same distance as the object in front of the mirror.
same distance
The distance from the object to the mirror is equal to the distance from the image to the mirror in a plane mirror. The image appears to be as far behind the mirror as the object is in front of it, so the apparent distance from the image to the mirror is equal to the actual distance from the object to the mirror.
when dealing with a flat mirror object-distance and image-distance should be equal.
Characteristics of an image formed by the plane mirror are :- * Virtual and erect (up right ) . * The image is of same size as that of the object . *The image is far behind the mirror as the object is in front of it . *The image is laterally inverted .
I can see my reflection in the mirror, which is an image of my face, located behind the mirror's surface. The image appears to be at the same distance behind the mirror as my actual face is in front of the mirror.
plane mirror. The image location will be the same distance behind the mirror as the object's distance in front of the 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.