Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Image Characteristics of a Plane Mirror
- Summary
- What’s Next?
In the previous segment, we learnt about Real and virtual images. In this segment, let us understand the image characteristics of a plane mirror.
What are the Image characteristics of a plane mirror?
The image properties of a plane mirror are as follows:
- The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual, that is, not real.
- The image formed by a plane mirror is always erect, that is, upright.
- The size of the object and the size of its image formed by a plane mirror are always the same.
- The image formed by a plane mirror is laterally inverted. That is, the left of the object is the right of the image and vice versa. Thus, the image formed by a plane mirror follows a Left- Right reversal.
- The object is at the same distance from the plane mirror as its image.
Summary
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What’s next?
In our next segment of Class 10 Science, we will learn about the Ray diagrams of a plane mirror.
