🪞 How does a mirror work?

✨ A mirror is like a magic window that shows you your reflection! 🌟 When you look into it, light bounces off your face and into the mirror. The mirror then sends the light back to your eyes, so you see yourself! 🪄

It's like playing catch with light—your face throws the light, and the mirror catches it and throws it right back! 🤗

🪞 A mirror works by reflecting light! When light hits a smooth, shiny surface (like a mirror), it bounces back in a straight line. This is called reflection.

Here’s how it happens:
1. Light from a lamp or the sun hits your face.
2. The light bounces off your face and travels to the mirror.
3. The mirror’s smooth surface reflects the light back to your eyes.
4. Your brain sees the reflected light as your image!

🔍 Fun experiment: Try tilting a mirror—the reflection moves because the angle of the light changes!

🔬 Mirrors work because of the laws of physics! Here’s the science behind it:

How Reflection Works:

Types of Mirrors:

• Plane mirrors (flat) show accurate reflections.
• Concave mirrors (curved inward) can magnify images.
• Convex mirrors (curved outward) make objects look smaller but widen the view (used in car side mirrors).

⚡ Fun fact: In telescopes, mirrors are used instead of lenses because they don’t distort colors!