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Mirror: Encyclopedia - Mirror
A mirror is a surface with good specular reflection that is smooth enough to form an image. The best known example is the plane mirror. T...
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Mirror: Encyclopedia Ii - Mirror - Image In A Mirror
For an object with approximate reflection symmetry, a reflection in some mirror plane corresponds to a combination of:
a translation if ...
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Mirror: Encyclopedia Ii - Mirror - Applications
Mirror - Viewing one's own body.
A mirror is used for inspecting parts of one's body which are difficult or impossible to see directly,...
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Mirror: Encyclopedia Ii - Mirror - Effect
In a plane mirror, a parallel beam of light changes its direction as a whole, whilst still remaining parallel; the images formed by a pla...
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Mirror: Encyclopedia Ii - Mirror - Composition
Early mirrors were usually a sheet of polished metal, often silver or copper, for example the Aranmula kannadi.
Most modern mirrors consi...
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