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  These laws of reflection are applicable to all types of reflecting surfaces
                       including spherical surfaces

               Characteristics of images formed by mirrors:-
                     (a) Images formed by mirrors are always virtual and erect
                       (b) Size of image is always equal to the size of the object and the image is
                       laterally inverted.
                       (c) The images formed by the plane mirror are as far behind the mirror as the
                       object in front of the mirror.
                     Lateral inversion:- If an object is placed in front of the mirror, then the right
                       side of the object appears to be the left side and left side of the object
                       appears to be the right side of this image. This change of sides of an object
                       and its mirror image is called lateral inversion.































































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