what are characteristic of image formed in a plane mirro
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plane mirrors produce images with a number of distinguishable characteristics. Images formed by plane mirrors are virtual, upright, left-right reversed, the same distance from the mirror as the object's distance, and the same size as the object.
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Plane Mirror
Characteristics Of Images - Mirrors
When a ray of light falls on a surface, then it can undergo one of the following three phenomena reflection, refraction, or absorption. When it falls on a normal surface than most of the light gets absorbed. So mirrors are polished surfaces coated with mercury such that they reflect most of the light falling on them. Now based on the type of reflecting surface we can classify mirrors as concave, convex, or plane mirror. Here we will be talking about the plane mirror only. So to form an image we require at least two rays from the object which meet or appear to meet at a point. In the case of a plane mirror, here we have used three images for better clarity in the ray diagram shown below.
Characteristics of the image formed by a plane mirror :
- It is virtual
- It is erect and of the same size as the object
- The distance of the object from the plane mirror is the same as the distance of the image from the plane mirror.
One of the important characteristics of the image is that it is laterally inverted. It means if you raise your left hand it would appear in the plane mirror that you have raised your right hand.
Laws of Reflection
There are two laws of reflection and they are:
- The angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are always equal.
- The incident ray, the normal at the point, and the reflected ray, all lie on the same plane.
Properties of an image formed by plane mirror The image obtained is virtual.
- The image is laterally inverted.
- The image is erect.
- The size of the image is the same as the size of the object.
- The distance between the image obtained is the same as the distance between the object from the mirror.