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Reflect On This!

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1 flat mirror, with a mirror support.Try This!

1. Look into a mirror. Touch your right ear. Which ear does the good-looking  Person in the mirror touch?
2. Write your name on a piece of paper. Look at your writing in a mirror. What is ‘wrong’ with what you see?
3. Write your name so that when you hold your writing up to a mirror, your name looks ‘normal’ in the mirror.

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4. Why is AMBULANCE written backwards on the front of the emergency vehicle?
5. Hold this page up to a mirror. What does the writing above look like in a mirror?
See Yourself as Others See You.

Reflect on this! If you look into a plane mirror and wink your right eye, your image
winks its left eye! The image of your right hand will have the symmetry of your left
hand

If you look straight into a pair of of mirrors arranged at a right angle (Figure 2), and
wink your right eye, your image will also wink its right eye. The image of your right
hand will have the symmetry of your right hand. In other words, you see yourself as
others see you.

Why is there a difference? When you look at your image in a pair of mirrors at 90o, the image you see is formed by light that has been reflected not once, but twice.

You may notice that you see more than one image when you look at yourself in the, mirror pair. How many images are there?

Do they all look the same?

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Reflect On This!

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