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Experimental set-up
- Take a chess board.
- If a chess board is not available, draw on a chart paper \(64\) (\(8\ ×\ 8\)) squares of equal size.
- Draw a thick line in the middle of the paper.
- Fix a plane mirror vertically on this line.
- Place any object at the boundary of the third square counting from the mirror (Figure).
- Note the position of the image.
- Now shift the object to the boundary of the fourth square.
- Again note the position of the image.
Did you find any relation between the distance of the image from the mirror and that of the object in front of it?
, the image formed behind the mirror is at the as the object in front of the mirror. This can be verified by placing the object anywhere on the board.
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