Why am I upside down in my spoon?
Unlike a flat mirror, the curved surface of the spoon’s bowl bounces incoming rays back towards a central focus point lying between your face and the centre of the spoon’s. In passing through this point, rays from the upper part of your face are reflected downward, while those from the lower part are reflected upward.
What happens when you look at yourself in the back of a spoon?
When you look at yourself in a mirror (and a spoon is basically a curved mirror), what you see is the image that’s produced when light bounces off of your face, off of the mirror, and comes back to you. If you’re looking into a flat mirror, the light will come straight back to you without bending at all.
What does the front side of the spoon represent and the back side?
The curved surfaces of a spoon act like mirrors. The front part of the spoon is concave while the back side of the spoon is convex. The usual formula for a lens is 1/d0 + 1/di = 1/f where d0 is the object distance, di is the image distance and f is the focal length for the mirror.
Is the image you see in the bowl of the shiny metal soup spoon real or virtual?
This image is formed by the apparent convergence of rays behind the mirror is virtual. In case of a convex mirror or the spoon your are showing; the light reflected from your body, gets reflected from the concave surface of the mirror.
What happens to your image as it is moved closer and farther from the spoon on the back side?
If the object is further away from the mirror than the focal point, the image will be upside-down and real—meaning that the image appears on the same side of the mirror as the object. But as you bring the spoon closer to your eyes, the image will get bigger and bigger.
Are concave mirrors real or virtual?
Concave mirrors can produce both real and virtual images; they can be upright (if virtual) or inverted (if real); they can be behind the mirror (if virtual) or in front of the mirror (if real); they can also be enlarged, reduced, or the same size as object.
What is the difference between the spoon and the mirror reflection?
Answer: Light travels in parallel lines. If you look in a normal mirror, everything that hits the mirror comes back to you the right way up in a straight line. If it goes into a spoon, which is concave – going inwards – the light comes back to you at an angle.
Why do concave mirrors reflect upside down?
Concave mirrors reflect upside-down because the curved surface of the mirror makes light bend at different angles.
What type of mirror makes you upside down?
Many people should have realised, when looking into a concave curved mirror (or even a rather reflective spoon in that fact) at a close distance, you will see a slightly distorted reflection. But as you move further away, the image will suddenly become upside-down.
Why do mirrors reflect left and right and not up and down?
Photons — particles of light — stream toward the smooth pane of glass and bounce off it. The image of everything in front of the mirror is reflected backward, retracing the path it traveled to get there. Nothing is switching left to right or up-down. Instead, it’s being inverted front to back.
Do people see me the way I see myself in the mirror?
No, it’s the opposite of what other people see. A mirror reverses the image it reflects and the same is true for a camera photo or a video image.