A mirror image appears reversed horizontally, meaning left and right are switched, but not back to front. For example, text in a mirror will be backwards.
The image that you see when you look in a mirror is a reflection of the light that bounces off of you and back into your eyes. This creates the illusion that your image is located behind the mirror, when in reality it is in front of it.
The image of the word PEN in front of a plane mirror will appear as a reversed image of the word PEN. So, if you write PEN in front of a plane mirror, the reflection will show NEP.
When you stand 2 meters in front of a full-length mirror, your image will appear to be 4 meters tall (twice your actual height) in the mirror. This is because the light reflects off you, then off the mirror, creating the illusion of an image that is equal distance behind the mirror as you are in front of it.
Light waves are bouncing back from the surface of the mirror. These light waves carry the image of you that you see in the mirror by reflecting the light that hits the mirror back to your eyes.
A convex mirror forms a virtual, upright, and diminished image of the object placed in front of it. The image is also located behind the mirror.
The image that you see when you look in a mirror is a reflection of the light that bounces off of you and back into your eyes. This creates the illusion that your image is located behind the mirror, when in reality it is in front of it.
A plane (flat) mirror reflects an image which is the same size and shape, and colour as the object in front of the mirror. A concave mirror can produce a magnified image. If the image is in front of the mirror it is a real image; if behind it is a virtual (non-real) image. A real image can be cast upon a white the best) surface
Mirror writing, Image reversal or inversion.
The image of the word PEN in front of a plane mirror will appear as a reversed image of the word PEN. So, if you write PEN in front of a plane mirror, the reflection will show NEP.
When you stand 2 meters in front of a full-length mirror, your image will appear to be 4 meters tall (twice your actual height) in the mirror. This is because the light reflects off you, then off the mirror, creating the illusion of an image that is equal distance behind the mirror as you are in front of it.
Light waves are bouncing back from the surface of the mirror. These light waves carry the image of you that you see in the mirror by reflecting the light that hits the mirror back to your eyes.
A convex mirror forms a virtual, upright, and diminished image of the object placed in front of it. The image is also located behind the mirror.
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.
The image will be located the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of it, so the image will be 15 millimeters behind the mirror.
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.
The mirror produces a virtual image, which means it appears to be behind the mirror at the same distance as the object in front of the mirror. This virtual image is upright and the same size as the object.