Introduction
Without it, your hair will be a big problem to you. Yet
many who uses a mirror daily will not understand the greatness of this one piece of, shiny
and flat object. Basically, a mirros besides serves its own mundane purposes have many
uses which you discover as you read on. or now, let us take a lot at the different types
of mirrors.
Plane Mirrors
This kind of mirrors adopt a perfectly flat surface. A pocket mirror and even an ordinary
wall can be a plane mirror. The image formed by plane mirrors is right side up, and the
size does not change from that of the original object.
Where is it located then? It always appear to be on the other side of the mirror where you
could almost reach forward and touch it. Think for a second. In reality, this is not
really the case. Since the brain always reach the eye in a straight line, thus even if
they are being reflected or bent it is always being recorded as having travelled in a
straight line. That is what happens in the mirror. The brain traces light rays back to
where they originate if they had been straight. In other words, they will appear to have
come straight from the mirror.
Light rays from an object reflected in the mirror do not actually meet. However, the brain
interprets an image at the point at which the light rays had met have been straight. This
is known to be a virtual image. Virtual here means an unreal image. As such, it can only
be captured in a a mirror.
