Table of Contents
- 1 Does its size depend upon your distance away from the mirror?
- 2 What effect does your distance from the plane mirror that is half your height have?
- 3 What is the relation between the two distances mirror to the object and mirror to the image explain with example?
- 4 Why should mirror be half your height?
- 5 What is the distance between image and object in a mirror?
- 6 How far away from a mirror is the useful area?
Does its size depend upon your distance away from the mirror?
The mirror should be half your size and its top edge should be at the level of your eyes. The size does not depend on your distance from the mirror.
What is the distance between the mirror and the object between the mirror and the image?
For plane mirrors, the object distance (is equal to the image distance. That is the image is the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of the mirror. If you stand a distance of 2 meters from a plane mirror, you must look at a location 2 meters behind the mirror in order to view your image.
How high does the mirror need to be hung on the wall so when you look straight ahead you can see your entire body when looking straight ahead not moving your head )?
In order to view your full image, the minimum size of the mirror has to be half of your height. It is really that simple. The plain logic is that, in reflection, the angle of falling light on the object is equal to the angle of reflection. Hence, the image of a 6ft tall person will require a 3ft long mirror.
What effect does your distance from the plane mirror that is half your height have?
Thus, by striking the mirror half way between your foot and eye, the ray never interacts with that part of the mirror below the half way mark. Since that half way point doesn’t change as you move away from the mirror, the useful area of the mirror remains the same, regardless your distance from it.
How tall should my mirror be?
The answer at which The Physics Classroom arrives is that a full-length mirror should be at least half the height of the viewer to completely reflect the body. When selecting a mirror for yourself, keep in mind that this height should also include any shoes or head wear, or you won’t be able to see the entire ensemble.
How far away is your reflection in a mirror?
Your image doesn’t originate at the mirror. Instead, light travels from your face two feet to the mirror, where it’s reflected another two feet back to your eyes. But if you look at a speck of dust on the mirror’s surface, you see it from only two feet away.
What is the relation between the two distances mirror to the object and mirror to the image explain with example?
Answer: For plane mirrors, the object distance (is equal to the image distance. That is the image is the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of the mirror. If you stand a distance of 2 meters from a plane mirror, you must look at a location 2 meters behind the mirror in order to view your image.
What is the distance of the object to the mirror?
Characteristics of Plane Mirror Images The distance from the image to the mirror is always identical to the distance from the object to the mirror. So if a person stands 2.0 meters in front of the mirror, then the image will be located an identical 2.0 meters behind the mirror.
How tall does my mirror need to be?
In order to show a reflection of your entire body from a distance, a full length mirror must be at least one half as long as your height. For example, if you are 64 inches tall, the full length mirror must be at least 32 inches long, or you will only see part of yourself in the reflection.
Why should mirror be half your height?
The minimum length of the mirror should be half the height of the man, this is because, at half the length of the height, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection, in the case reflection.
How do you measure the size of a mirror?
If you want to know the size of the mirror included with your frame, subtract the width of the frame from the outside dimensions. For example, one of our best sellers, Sante Fe Oval in Antique White has outside dimensions of 14in x 18in. The actual frame is 1 3/8in wide. So the size of the mirror is 12 5/8 x 16 5/8.
What are standard mirror sizes?
Standard Mirror Sizes
- 16″ Inch Mirror.
- 17″ Inch Mirror.
- 18″ Inch Mirror.
- 1.5 FT Mirror.
- 19″ Inch Mirror.
- 20″ Inch Mirror.
- 21″ Inch Mirror.
- 22″ Inch Mirror.
What is the distance between image and object in a mirror?
The distance between image and object depend upon the type of mirror. If it is flat, then distance between image and person should be 20 cm like this: If the mirror is concave, the distance between image and object is less than actual. If the mirror is convex, the distance between image and object is greater than actual.
How does the size of a mirror’s image change over time?
The size of the image at the mirror’s surface gets bigger(albeit not by an easily observable amount after a short distance). At distance d=0 from the mirror, the reflected image size = 0 (you never get that in real life, because your nose keeps your eyes from getting right up to the mirror’s surface.
How much height do you need to view yourself in a mirror?
In other words, to view an image of yourself in a plane mirror, you will need an amount of mirror equal to one-half of your height. A 6-foot tall man needs 3-feet of mirror (positioned properly) in order to view his entire image.
How far away from a mirror is the useful area?
Since that half way point doesn’t change as you move away from the mirror, the useful area of the mirror remains the same, regardless your distance from it. Another way of looking at this is to imagine your image is another person standing on the other side of a window and the same distance away from it.