Question #19

Now that you have a good understanding from Question #18 of the image created by a plane mirror, consider the related problem: Suppose that you hold the transparency in the photograph below in front of a mirror.

How will its reflection appear? Is the image:

• (a) inverted top-to-bottom?
• (b) inverted left-to-right?
• (c) inverted front-to-back?
• (d) not inverted at all?

Write out the word LIGHT as it will appear in the mirror.

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