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The image in a plane mirror
The image in a plane mirror seems to be somewhere in space behind the mirror, this type of
image is called a virtual image. It is actually the same distance from the mirror as the object
is in front of the mirror. (See Figure 1). You can see the image but you can’t actually touch it
or focus it on a surface. The light rays from the object spread out, hit the mirror and then
reflect – they seem to have come from a point behind the mirror. This is the image of the
object.
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It also looks as though it is reversed from left to right, this last property is called LATERAL
INVERSION.
Lateral inversion
An image in a plane mirror is:
the same size as the object;
the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front;
laterally inverted
virtual.
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