Light and Color: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
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Funhouse mirrors help us learn about light and reflection.
Mirrors are used for more than checking your face in the morning. Scientists have lots of uses for mirrors. Find out more about the different kinds of mirrors and how they use light and reflection to study the universe.
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Light and Color: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Clip: Special | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Mirrors are used for more than checking your face in the morning. Scientists have lots of uses for mirrors. Find out more about the different kinds of mirrors and how they use light and reflection to study the universe.
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Science Trek is a place where parents, kids, and educators can watch short, educational videos on a variety of science topics. Every Monday Science Trek releases a new video that introduces children to math, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career potentials in a fun, informative way.(Science Trek music) JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN, HOST: Scientists have lots of uses for mirrors, but not all mirrors are the same.
Plane mirrors are flat.
They are the ones you see in your bathroom.
Scientists use plane mirrors in microscopes to reflect light so they can see very small things.
Have you ever seen yourself in a funhouse mirror?
These mirrors are specially designed.
Light coming in gets bent and you see a distorted image.
Concave mirrors curve inward.
They can be used to make thing larger.
Scientists use concave mirrors in large telescopes.
On the other hand, convex mirrors are thinner in the middle and bend light outward.
Drivers use convex mirrors in their side mirrors.
By the way, your reflection in a mirror only appears to be reversed.
That's because your brain is used to seeing faces turned 180 degrees.
Light bounces off the mirror and is reflected back the way it came.
So, the image is reflected, not rotated the way our brain usually expects.
So, an image in a mirror appears to be reversed.
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