This really bugs me.
2006-11-16 23:00:53 · 5 answers · asked by festeringhump 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Mirror does not reverse the image instead you have reversed the mirror to make it to be facing you. Otherwise you cannot see your image in the mirror. That is you and the mirror is facing opposite means not in the same direction. Mathematically, there is 180 degree difference between you and mirror, which is inevitable. Therefore your left side is the right side of the mirror and right side is the left side of the mirror. Hence you miss feel that the mirror has reversed your image.
Also, as the angle of the mirror changes angle of the image also changes. when the mirror is kept horizontally at our leg image vanishes, inditacing we cannot see our own vertically inverted image in the mirror.
Now, keep the mirror below the horizontal position from your leg, then you find your image is inverted as well as reversed. Here to keep yourself in the direction of the mirror you will have to make two kinds of rotation one in the horizontal direction another in the vertical direction at the rate of 180 degree each , totally 360 degree. So this difference between you and the mirror , image is appearing as reversed and inverted.
Once again, imagine a tall building just on the bank of a lake. Image of this building in water of the lake looks horizontal or vertically inverted w.r.t .the position of the viewer. This is because of the total internal refraction of the light. Don’t confuse that it is not the image of the observer.
In the same way you can go on thinking and analyzing the several phenomena of reflection and refraction.
2006-11-17 01:37:13 · answer #1 · answered by shasti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Place a "T" on your forehead and a "L" on your left hand. In the Mirror image "T" is still on top and "L" is still on your left. Of course if you imagine that the image is another person, the "L" will be on "their" right hand but that has nothing to do with the real image.
2006-11-16 23:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not "reverse images." Mirrors reflect light. Stand facing a mirror and the left side of your body is reflected in the left side of the mirror.
2006-11-16 23:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by regerugged 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
stable question! I realy had to think of a lot in the previous I have been given (i think of) a sinsible answer. "Up" and "Down" are absolute strategies. often, your head is up and your ft down, those are purpose statements. what's left and precise is relative. Your left eye is stable to somebody staring at you from the front, or by way of a mirror. there is an island interior the Pacific the place the natives do no longer communicate approximately left and precise yet approximately "land-direction" and "see-direction". they could say that a mirror would not substitute something.
2016-12-29 03:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it actually does not reverse images. it seems as though it shows from left to right. all are virtual
2006-11-16 23:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by sreedhar s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋