how are most mirror made to obtain a reflecting surface?
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The process of depositing a thin film of metal on glass is centuries old.  Aluminum is now used as well as silver.  It is a little different for telescope mirrors than for mirrors used in dressing rooms and bathrooms, but basicaly:\n\n“Virtually all mirrors for interior use are manufactured by the conveyor, wet deposition method. Annealed or fully tempered glass is thoroughly cleaned by the application of cleaners and passing contact with oscillating scrub brush units. After the glass is cleaned and rinsed, the surface of the glass is sensitized with a diluted solution of tin chloride. This surface treatment allows for the deposition of silver. Silver nitrate is sprayed onto the sensitized surface of the glass along with other chemical configurations. The final outcome is the formation of a uniform silver layer on the glass.”\n\nSee the site below for additional details on the mirroring process.
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Reflection off of smooth surfaces such as mirrors or a calm body of water leads to a type of reflection known as specular reflection. Reflection off of rough surfaces such as clothing, paper, and the asphalt roadway leads to a type of reflection known as diffuse reflection.\n\nGood luck doing your homework!
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There are many different levels of building your own scope. THe simplest way is to buy the mirrors from a reputable company and build the mount and cell yourself. \n\nYou can go further and grind your own parabolic mirror. THis takes a fair amount of time. It has been said that if you want an 8 inch mirror it is faster to first make a four inch and then make the 8 inch rather than start with the 8 inch. You learn that much by doing the smaller (and hence easier) mirror. The difficulty here is that you have to get your mirror plated once you are finished, which requires it to be sent off someplace.\n\nMaking a refracting telescope is orders of magnitude harder since the lenses are harder to grind than the mirrors. Also, chromatic aberration is common with refractors.\n\nCheck with your local astronomy club. Also check back issues of Sky&Telescope magazine. THis is a big subject and not one to be dealt with completely in this forum.
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easy. For a basic refractor just reflects light through lense then bends by way of mirror into eyepiece which also has lense. Focusing lense. Hope helps.
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The basics...\n\nBackground:\nLight from the sun, light bulbs, etc. hit objects.  That light is reflected off but as a color which is a specific wavelength of light.  Our eyes get those reflect wavelengths and that's how we see.  Different color objects reflect light as different wavelengths.\n\nMirrors:\nMirrors reflect light off of them just like any other object.  The difference is mirrors reflect the same wavelength that hit them.\n\nSo, images seem to reflect when looking at a mirror.\n\nThere is a lot more too it but that is the basics.
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It is hard to imagine a source of light that would not become an obstacle for light inside when shut off, however lets scale this up, make the box one light minute across and make the light source a bright laser that destroys itself by lasing...\n\nIn that case the beam would bounce around forever, assuming that the reflective surface is perfect in its mirror behavior.  \n\nSo if we imagine a perfect mirror then the light will continue to bounce forever.  However one might need to look carefully at the corners of the interior, if the light reflects back and forth in a corner it may get trapped in a standing wave.  \n\nIn the best versions of this experiment I can imagine the energy would be rapidly shifted out of the visible light spectrum's and lost as heat.
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Silver is one of the most reflective elements.  It will reflect the heat back into the vessel instead of allowing it to escape.
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All kinds of electromagnetic radiation reflect as light.\nSo do microwaves.\n\nTh
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I cannot tell you whether or not it has been done...\nBut I will never be truly "trapped" even with a mirror with a fairly high finish (aka 1-2 microns) there is still a loss every time it "bounces" off the mirror + if you do not do it in a vacuum there will be atomspheric losses as well.\nHenceforth if it is "trapped" it wouldn't stay there for long..
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There is no such thing as a perfect mirror as one has not been created to show the beauty or ugliness within one's shell.  It shows only the outside and that is not always what the true self is.  A mirror is supposed to display the comlete reflection of something.
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to  help you about what??what reflection are you talking about???
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A mirror CAN make things look upside down.  Stand in front of a mirror and hold a book up so you're reading the cover.  Now, turn the book so the cover faces the mirror and you can see the book cover in the mirror.  Normally you would rotate the book about a vertical axis, THIS is when the left and right reversal takes place.  You could instead turn the book upside down.  Then the reflection of the cover WOULD be upside down, and not backwards.\n\nOther answers given:\nRefraction does not happen. Only reflection.  Refraction has to do with the bending of light when it goes from one medium (such as air) to another medium (such as water).  It has nothing to do with the question.\n\nBecause our eyes are next to each other.  Close one eye and prove to yourself that that answer is nonsense.\n\nAlthough it seems backwards its really not.  Prove this is wrong by holding a book to a mirror and trying to read it.
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It works by having little mirror slices at different angles. As light is reflected off the orb, the little slices separates the light into several colours briefly and the process is repeated.
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You see a mirror in a mirror in a mirror in a mirror ......\nThere are various gadgets using this effect. \nFor instance if you put a lightbulb between the two mirrors and look throug the one way mirror you will see (depending how parallel you've managed to put the mirrors) lots of lightbulbs disappearing into infinity. I know 'cause I've done it!
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The best simple example is the pinhole camera. An light-tight box coated black on the inside to stop reflection, with photographic paper on 1 side and a pin-hole in foil on the other side. Set up the camera and hold it steady for a short period (about a minute, experimentation required) with the pinhole exposed. When you develop the paper you will get a reasonably well focussed image that is inverted. Light from each point on the subect could pass into the camera through only 1 point, the pin-hole, and only land on 1 point of the paper. Light from the left passed through and landed on the right side of the paper and vice-versa.\n\nTo make a camera using lenses and mirrors requires far greater precision as lenses and mirrors focus light. Light from each point of the subject lands on all parts of the lens but converges to a single point again on the film. If the lens is not properly shaped, aligned and distanced from the film, the image will be out of focus. The use of mirrors and lenses allows the image to be recorded the right way around.
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they work the same way one way mirrors work.  A one-way mirror has a reflective coating applied in a very thin, sparse layer -- so thin that it's called a half-silvered surface. The name half-silvered comes from the fact that the reflective molecules coat the glass so sparsely that only about half the molecules needed to make the glass an opaque mirror are applied. At the molecular level, there are reflective molecules speckled all over the glass in an even film but only half of the glass is covered. The half-silvered surface will reflect about half the light that strikes its surface, while letting the other half go straight through.
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Use a sheet of carbon paper and sheet of tranparant paper.  Fold the transparant paper around the carbon paper, draw one long edge and two short ages, then unfold the transparant paper and (hopefully) the carbon paper will have produced the mirror image and therfore finish the rectangle.