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Because it has a shiny & smooth surface which helps to reflect the light...
Take an example of tree. A tree have a rough surface due to which light can be reflect.
So All of this depends on the smoothness of surface.. :-)
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Mirrors have a shiny surface which reflects light well
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Why does a rough surface reflect light in many directions?
It reflects in different directions because its rough, there is many sides so the light reflects of the sides causing it to reflect in different directions.
What is the angle of incidence when a ray of light falls on spherical mirror from its centre of curvature?
That ray of light is just a radius of the sphere. It's perpendicular to the sphere everywhere, so the angle of incidence is zero ... the ray of light arrives along the normal to the mirror at any point.
Why does light reflect in a mirror?
A glass mirror is a piece of glass with a reflective coating on the back side. If a surface is extremely smooth and flat, it will reflect light waves without distorting them. Metal mirrors are less efficient, generally because the metal is difficult to polish to the same smoothness as glass. Water can be an effective mirror, if the surface of it is perfectly smooth. The question is Why? The answer is that light reflects off everything. It is normal for light to reflect. A photon hits an atom or molecule of substance and it bounces off it. That's how come we can see things. Because light bounces off them. So it is no mystery that light bounces off (reflects) mirrors. The only difference between mirrors and other things is they bounce nearly ALL the light wave lengths back and are smooth to not distort the reflection and we are accustomed to use them for looking at ourselves and come to think of them as different. If all the wavelengths were not reflected the mirror would have a colour. The colour of the reflected wavelengths of light. Absorption of a wavelength would be, I'd guess (I'm no scientist) the losing of some of the energy of those photons - lose all its energy and it'd be extinguished, I guess. Possibly the question really should be Why Can't We See A Mirror? because that's the funny thing: we see only the reflections and fail to see the reflective surface and that's because, again, 'seeing' means looking at reflected light. light bounces off the reflecting surface of the mirror. Note the reflecting surface of a mirror is commonly the metallic coating on the back of a sheet of glass. So if it's reflecting off metal why not make metal mirrors with no glass? Because this way is cheaper and easier. Depositing a fine layer of metal on a totally smooth piece of glass is a lot easier than taking a piece of metal and and polishing to a high finish - and then keep it that way.
What happens when you shine light at an angle toward a mirror?
so it is the same when you put a maginifing glass up to a leaf- you make sure that the dot is as small as can be and you will have a hole in the leaf! so this happen by you focusing all the light on spot that you want to burn - remember light gives off heat (same happens when youshine light at an angle toward a mirror)
What does a ''colorless'' object look like?
A colorless object appears white or transparent. It has no specific hue or shade and does not reflect or absorb any particular wavelengths of light to create a color. Instead, it reflects all visible light equally, resulting in a colorless appearance.
Are mirrored sunglasses just for looks or does that serve a purpose?
The mirror actually reflect a lot of harmful light so they protect you well.
Can gray rock reflect light?
If an object doesn't reflect light, it will appear perfectly black. So yes, in a sense, a rock does reflect light, since this is what enables you to see it. It is, however, a poor reflector, compared with, say, water, or a mirror. If an object doesn't reflect light, it will appear perfectly black. So yes, in a sense, a rock does reflect light, since this is what enables you to see it. It is, however, a poor reflector, compared with, say, water, or a mirror.
A convex mirror will make light rays more what?
"A convex mirror is sometimes referred to as a divergingmirror due to the fact that incident light originating from the same point and will reflect off the mirror surface and diverge."So, a convex mirror will reflect and diverge (scatter) the incident light rays (it produces a virtual image), while a convex lens will do the opposite. It will converge light rays passing through it.
What are the conditions for seeing the image of an object in a plane mirror?
-- Light has to shine on the object, and some of it has to reflect off of the object. -- Some of the reflected light has to make it to the mirror. There can't be any physical obstruction in the path. -- The mirror has to be clean enough so that some of the light hitting the mirror is reflected away from it. -- Your eye has to be on the path taken by the light after it reflects from the mirror.
How does a mirror work so you can see yourself?
Light bounces off of you, and you absorb some of it. The light that you don't absorb bounces off in a lots of directions. If you are standing near a mirror, some of that light that bounced off you hits the mirror. Mirrors don't absorb any of the light, they reflect it, so all the light bounces again, back at you. The light that goes into your eyes is what you see.
Does the moon reflect the sun's heat as well as its light?
Yes I thinK so....
How do you get the light to hit the rover on Lunar Colony Island?
Climb up and open the roof to let the sunlight in. Change the angle of the large mirror to aim the light to the left across the room, where it will reflect off another mirror. Adjust that mirror so that the light shines on the solar battery charger in the rover.
Why is the mirror so mounted that it can be turned in all direction?
so that can reflect the sunlight yo any angle of the mirror
Why is mirror so mounted that it can be turned in all direction?
so that can reflect the sunlight yo any angle of the mirror
Why the mirror so mounted that it can be turned in all direction?
so that can reflect the sunlight yo any angle of the mirror
Why can you see ourself in the mirror?
You are able to see yourself in a mirror because the light rays are reflected 180 degrees back at you. A mirror image can be considered a light print of you. Mirrors that are not just flat surfaces will reflect light at different angles.
How did a spinning octagonal mirror help michelson calculate the time that light took to make the round trip to the distact mountain?
He adjusted the mirror so that the beam of light would reflect back into his lens. As the mirror was spinning around (1/8 of rotation) it shot short burst of light off the mountain mirror and into the spinning octagonal mirror, helping him calculate speed of light at around 300,000 km/s.
