Mirror

:This article is about the reflective surfaces. For other senses of this word, see mirror (disambiguation).

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A mirror is a reflective surface 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 shaving, make-up, etc but mirrors are also used in scientific apparati such as telescopes and lasers, and in industrial machinery.

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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 concave and convex mirrors do not have a single focal point, as often described in high school physics text books (see spherical aberration in lens (optics) and aberration in optical systems).

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