2006-08-03 04:00:58 · 8 answers · asked by Orkhan N 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Because it is a Concave Mirror, simple yeah!!!
2006-08-07 00:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by JAM123 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you see when you look at a mirror isn't always your face - if you angle it away from you, you will start seeing things that are behind you and to one side, and as you continue turning the mirror the view will change getting more and more to the side, and ultimately you'll start seeing reflections of things which you can actually see in front of you and to one side.
A spoon (or any other concave mirror) can be thought of as a series of flat mirrors all at a slightly different angle. If you imagined there were just two mirrors, at the top and bottom of the spoon, you can hopefully imagine that the one at the top of the spoon is angled down the way, so what you see is a view that's tilted down from the horizontal (eg, your eyes and down). The bottom of the spoon is angled up so what you see is a view tilted up from the horizontal (eg your eyes and up). When you have a continuous surface like a spoon, then you don't see individual reflections, but the principles are the same - the best image of your chin is coming from the top of the spoon (because it's angled down) but the best view of your hair is coming from the bottom of the spoon (because it's angled up). So of course what you see is upside down (and back to front, since it's curved side-to-side too).
2006-08-03 04:20:57 · answer #2 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well dear, it's basic physics... Light rays travel in a straight line until they hit something. A light ray comes straight back only when it hits an object dead on. If the surface of the object is slanted relative to the light, it will cause the light to be reflected at an angle. So, a spoon's surface is curved, both from top to bottom and side to side. And all the light that enters our eye does so in the same direction (we'll call it the horizontal direction). Light from our toes hits the top of the spoon and, because of it's 'downward' slant, gets redirected horizontally. And only light from our head gets reflected horizontally from the bottom of the spoon. Since what we see is WHERE the light came from, we see our toes above our head!
2006-08-03 04:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Understood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually everything is not quite as it seems. You actually 'see' everything upside down naturally; but the brain switches this round for you. So when you look in the spoon and think you are seeing things upside down, actually they are being seen the right way up as far as the lens of your eye is concerned.
2006-08-05 09:23:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a concave mirror. basically the light from what youre looking at gets flipped over and comes out upside down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror
2006-08-03 04:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by Jake S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a concave surface
2006-08-03 04:07:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it acts as a concave mirror
2006-08-03 04:05:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hummmm...good question. Don't know.
2006-08-03 04:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by Michele K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋