Mirror - One-way 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. The most common use is in the home for personal grooming but mirrors are also used in scientific apparatus such as telescopes and lasers, and in industrial machinery. 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 plane mirror are virtual images, of the same size a ...

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• Mirror - Image in a mirror
• Mirror - Composition
• Mirror - Applications
• Mirror - Viewing one's own body
• Mirror - Instruments
• Mirror - Safety and easier viewing
• Mirror - One-way mirror
• Mirror - Decoration
• Mirror - Signaling
• Mirror - Entertainment
• Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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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, such as the face, neck or the whole body. This may be to check physical appearance (including clothing, make-up, hair, etc.) or to control applying make-up, shaving, cutting hair, fixing one's tie, etc. Mirror - Instruments. Telescopes and other precision instruments use front silvered mirrors, where the reflecting surface is placed on t ...

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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For an object with approximate reflection symmetry, a reflection in some mirror plane corresponds to a combination of: a translation if the mirror is parallel to the symmetry plane of the object, and otherwise a rotation about the line of intersection of the two planes by an angle which is twice the angle between the two planes a reflection in the approximate symmetry plane of the object (due to t ...

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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In a plane mirror, a parallel beam of light changes its direction as a whole, whilst still remaining parallel; the images formed by a plane mirror are virtual images, of the same size as the original object (see mirror image). There are also parabolic concave mirrors, where a parallel beam of light becomes a convergent beam, whose rays intersect in the focus of the mirror. Finally, there are convex mirrors, where a parallel beam becomes divergent, with the apparent intersection occurring behind the mirror. Note that spherical c ...

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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Early mirrors were usually a sheet of polished metal, often silver or copper, for example the Aranmula kannadi. Most modern mirrors consist of a thin layer of aluminium deposited on a sheet of glass. They are back silvered, where the reflecting surface is viewed through the glass sheet; this makes the mirror durable, but lowers the image quality of the mirror due to extraneous reflections from the front surface of the glass. This type of mirror reflects about 80% of the incident light. The "back side" of the mirror is often painted black to com ...

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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