Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 319 views

    Plane Mirrors & Image Formation

    Uploaded by

    Eisle Keith Tapia
    This document discusses plane mirrors and image formation. It describes that images formed in plane mirrors are always virtual, upright but reversed left to right, and located behind the mirror at the same distance as the object is in front of the mirror. The document provides a brief history of mirrors and discusses real images versus virtual images. It also gives examples of applications that use mirrors like periscopes, kaleidoscopes, DSLR cameras, overhead projectors, and car wing mirrors.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Plane Mirrors & Image Formation

    Uploaded by

    Eisle Keith Tapia
    319 views20 pages
    This document discusses plane mirrors and image formation. It describes that images formed in plane mirrors are always virtual, upright but reversed left to right, and located behind the mirror at the same distance as the object is in front of the mirror. The document provides a brief history of mirrors and discusses real images versus virtual images. It also gives examples of applications that use mirrors like periscopes, kaleidoscopes, DSLR cameras, overhead projectors, and car wing mirrors.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Plane mirrors & image formation

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document discusses plane mirrors and image formation. It describes that images formed in plane mirrors are always virtual, upright but reversed left to right, and located behind the mirror at the same distance as the object is in front of the mirror. The document provides a brief history of mirrors and discusses real images versus virtual images. It also gives examples of applications that use mirrors like periscopes, kaleidoscopes, DSLR cameras, overhead projectors, and car wing mirrors.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    319 views20 pages

    Plane Mirrors & Image Formation

    Uploaded by

    Eisle Keith Tapia
    This document discusses plane mirrors and image formation. It describes that images formed in plane mirrors are always virtual, upright but reversed left to right, and located behind the mirror at the same distance as the object is in front of the mirror. The document provides a brief history of mirrors and discusses real images versus virtual images. It also gives examples of applications that use mirrors like periscopes, kaleidoscopes, DSLR cameras, overhead projectors, and car wing mirrors.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    of 20

    PLANE MIRRORS &

    IMAGE FORMATION
    Physics 131

    Facilitator: Junbryle Agbayani


    1.
    Reversal in Mirror
    Describing an Image
    S = Size of the image

    A = Attitude of the image

    L = Location of the Image

    T = Type of the image


    Image Size Attitude Location Type

    Large Same Upright or In front or Virtual or


    Small Inverted behind real
    mirror
    An image in a plane mirror is
    always:
    S= Same size
    A= Upright but backwards
    L= Behind the mirror (same
    distance as object in front)
    T= Virtual image
    History of Mirror
    Year Description
    6000 BC Earliest mirror was made up of polished stone such as obsidian (a naturally occurring volcanic
    glass)
    4000 – 2000 BC Egyptian’s use mirrors made of polished bronze shaped into flat discs (in representation of the
    sun god Re).
    Chinese's also use mirrors made of cast bronze.

    300 AD In Japan, bronze mirror (imported from China) were associated with Amaterasu (sun goddess
    and imperial ancestor)
    500 AD Man began to create somewhat clearer and more reflective glass mirrors using silver-mercury
    amalgams.
    77 AD The people of Sidon developed a technique for creating a crude mirror by coating brown glass
    with molten lead.
    1920 - 1930 Vacuum deposition begun with the study of the sputtering phenomenon which was a
    common problem in lighting in which metal ejected from the electrodes coated glass.
    1937 The first dielectric mirror made using evaporated rhodium.
    Virtual Image vs. Real Image
    Real Image Virtual Image
    A real image can be obtained on the A virtual image cannot be obtained on
    screen. the screen.

    A real image is always inverted. A virtual image is always erect.

    Example of real image is the image Example of virtual image is the image
    formed on the cinema screen. formed when we stand in front of the
    mirror.
    Ray Diagram
    Object Image

    Observer
    Periscope

    Is an apparatus consisting of a tube


    attached to a set of mirrors or prisms, by
    which an observer (typically in a
    submerged submarine or behind a high
    obstacle) can see things that are
    otherwise out of sight.
    Kaleidoscope

    Is an optical instrument in which bits of


    glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating
    tube, are shown in continually changing
    symmetrical forms by reflection in two or
    more mirrors set at angles to each other.
    DSLR Camera

    Digital Single Reflex Camera uses


    mirror that reflects the light coming from
    the lens and sends it through a prism (in
    higher-end DSLR) or a series of mirrors
    (usually in lower-end models) and finally
    to the optical viewfinder.
    Over-head Projector

    Uses the play of the mirrors to project


    images and documents.
    Wing Mirror

    Also known as the fender mirror, door


    mirror, outside rear-view mirror or side
    view mirror, is a mirror found on the
    exterior of motor vehicles for the purpose
    of helping the driver see areas behind and
    to the sides of the vehicle, outside the
    driver’s peripheral vision.

    You might also like