Plane Mirrors & Image Formation

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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.

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