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If a mirror reverses right and left, why doesn't it reverse up and down?
i mean the image you see in a mirror. it has right and left reversed, but not top and bottom reversed. It will show your hair going to the left instead of the right. I know it's a silly question and concept - it's just an answer that i think is hard to explain easily.
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
it's all how you are oriented toward the mirror - if you were standing on the mirror, the mirror image would look upside-down
- Anonymous1 decade ago
A mirror does not "reverse" anything. What you are seeing in a mirror is a direct reflection of light hitting it, which consists of parallel light rays hitting the mirror surface and bouncing back towards your eyes in the same parallel manner. For a mirror to flip your image upside down, it would have to be shaped in a concave manner (like a satellite dish) so that the light rays and reflected back through a focal point and reversed before hitting your eyes. You can see this happen with magnifying lenses when you hold them far enough from your eyes.
Source(s): Simple optics. - heartsenseiLv 41 decade ago
A mirror doesn't "reverse" right and left, it "reverses" front and back :-)
- 1 decade ago
did you mean selfish?
or self indulgent?
self sufficient people can earn enough money so that they do not have to depend on others.
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