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when we stand side of a mirror and keep a object infront, why we are not getting the same distance to the object and to the mirror?
In the case of plane mirrors, the image is said to be a virtual images. Virtual images are images that are formed in locations where light does not actually reach. Light does not actually pass through the location on the other side of the mirror; it only appears to an observer as though the light is coming from this location. Whenever a mirror (whether a plane mirror or otherwise) creates an image that is virtual, it will be located behind the mirror where light does not really come from.


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