with the inside wall being made of nothing but the mirrors used in police interrogations, so that you could see inside, but the mirror wouldn't reflect your image, and there were no objects of any kind that are visible, inside of the sphere, what would be displayed in the mirrors?
2007-01-27 14:24:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Doug, i said police interrogation mirrors, you know, 1 way mirrors, so u could see inside.
2007-01-27 14:37:57 · update #1
But what would you see if for example you placed that sphere in front of a person of the same height? Would that person be transparent, semi transparent or what?
2007-01-27 15:07:17 · update #2
black since no light can get in
2007-01-27 14:52:17 · answer #1 · answered by Richard Cranium 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from wikipedia"one-way mirror reflects some percentage of the light and lets some other percentage pass. It is a sheet of glass coated with a layer of metal only a few dozen atoms thick, allowing some of the light through the surface (from both sides). It is used between a dark room and a brightly lit room. Persons on the brightly lit side see their own reflection - it looks like a normal mirror. Persons on the dark side see through it - it looks like a transparent window. It may be used to observe criminal suspects or customers (to watch out for theft). The same type of mirror, when used in an optical instrument, is called a half-silvered mirror or beam splitter. Its purpose is to split a beam of light so that half passes straight through, while the other half is reflected — this is useful for interferometry." So basically light would pass through the outisde to the inside bounce around and escape slightly as the inside was illuminated, so it would be a semi reflective, semi transparent sphere.
2007-01-27 22:53:59 · answer #2 · answered by symetrist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't be able to see inside the sphere, because it would just look black. It would look black because in order to see through it you would have to be able to see out the other side and you couldn't because you would be looking through the other side of the mirror. It would be dark inside it I believe. After thinking about this for a while, If people on the brightly lit side see a mirror, like another answerer said, then I would imagine you would just see a spherical mirror because it would be lighter on the out side. It wouldn't look like a semi transparent sphere unless there was a light on the inside.
2007-01-27 22:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing since their would be no source of light inside the spear in order to have a reflection you must have a light source in absolute dark their would be no reflection.
2007-01-27 23:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by spinnoff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. But you wouldn't be there to see it since, if you were, there -would- then be someting inside the sphere (namely, you) in direct contradiction to your stated conditions.
Doug
2007-01-27 22:35:46 · answer #5 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋