how are mirrors made?
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Very carefully. Imagine how many years bad luck you could end up with working in a place like that?\n\nIsn't it something to do with a silver coating of some kind on the back - or a metallic reflective thingy?
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Photos capture an image of light.  And mirrors essentially reflect photons. We know that photons, particles of light, have wave/particle properties and when they are reflected off of an object, they are affected by the surface of the object of mirror. Look at your self on both side of a spoon.  The concave part, the one that is curved in, should have an upside down version of you, and on the otherside, convex, you will have an elongated version of yourself.  \nIf you look at the queston from a quantum phsyics perspective.  Every time you look in the mirror, you will see a different you. This is because you are actually seeing different light reflecting off a different surface.  \nI really dont know much about cameras, but thank God for photo shop.  Mirrors are a bad invention in my opinion.  People get caught up in having to maintain an external image that the rest of the world sees, when in reality the image of ourselves that we should really work on is the one inside our heads.  Anyways, I hope I answered your question to some extent.
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mirrors attract ligtning due to their glass. Particles in the glass contain small amouns of parfanenon. This element is conductable with ligtning like water.
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Use of a fresnel lens, a lens made up of circular rings that focus the light to the small area of reflecting mirror. This in turn projects the image to the screen. \n\nTake the optic workings of a telescope or microscope:\n\nOptics - microscopes and telescopes all invert the image because if they didnt, it would mean that another lens had to be added, increasing money cost. A lens is convex on both sides. That means the middle is thicker than the edges. A microscope or telescope has two lenses (basically).\nThe objective lens (usually larger and closer to the specimen or object) which allows the image of the object to be reduced to a smaller workable image inside the scope. \nThis image is inverted inside the scope. It is also too small to see with the eye, so you need another lens, the eyepiece. The eyepiece focus's your eye on the image and magnifies \nit so you can see it. Every lens has a focal length, the point at which the image is formed away from the surface of the lens. \n\nOk now we take this to the overhead:\n\nSame principle but in different Direction. You manipulate the object, transparency, over the light source after the light is passed thru the fresnel. The fresnel forms the smaller inverted image on the mirror. It is then reflected to the screen where the focal length is adjusted (moved closer or farther away from the screen )
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The glass is polished to a very smooth surface--any one of several means might be used, depending on what shape the mirror is supposed to be.\n\nThat done, an electrically conductive layer is applied, and metal is electroplated onto it.  On the whole, the electroplating is done slowly, because that produces a much better surface.\n\nSome mirrors, however, rely on a trick involving the index of refraction; put two layers together where their indexes of refraction have just the right relationship, and you get reflection.\n\nThe easiest trick, of course, is to take a material that will polarize light.  You take two layers of it, and rotate them so that they are trying to polarize light at right angles to each other (Say, one's twisting the light 45 degrees left, and the other layer is trying to take it 45 degrees right), slap 'em together and you have a mirror.\n\nIt is this last trick that is used to make the sunglasses you can see out of, but that look like mirrors to others trying to look in.
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An addition:\n"blind-spot" mirrors in cars are convex-they increase the field of view so vehicles in the blindspot can be seen.\nFlashlights, while not having glass mirrors, have some metal fashioned in a concave manner to direct the light in a beam. The "crazy mirrors" in carnivals are examples of convex or concave mirrors to distort shapes. In a concave mirror, all incident light rays parallel to the principle axis are reflected through the mirror's focus. A formula:\n1/i + 1/O = 1/f, where f is focal length, i is image distance, and o is object distance.
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(1)mirrors reflect light because it has a shiny and reflective metal behind it.\n(2)camera lenses
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Magnifying mirrors are concaved inward and work by focusing the light on a point such that the image is larger than the original object.\n\nhttp://physics.bu.edu/py106/notes/Spherical.html
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For refractors, the most common problem is chromatic aberration. In this, you get little rainbows around bright objects and a blurrier image around others. This happens because the lenses act like prisms. All refractors are subject to this, but some *very* expensive ones have it less. They fix this by using more than one type of glass.\n\nFor reflectors, the main problem is spherical aberration. This is caused by the mirror not being a perfect paraboloid. It is much easier to grind a sphere than a paraboloid, and most mirrors are first ground to a spherical shape. If the subsequent grinding isn't done right, the resulting images will be blurrier than need be. For decent images, the mirror's shape has to be within 1/4 of a wavelength of light, and for a good image it should be correct to within 1/10 of a wavelength. Considering how small the wavelength of visible light is, you can see how hard that is.
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In a refracting telescope, light is focused using a series of lenses. In a reflecting telescope, it is focused using curved mirrors.
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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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Yes it can. If you have two mirrors exactly facing each other, an infinite amount of reflections are made back and forth. You should try it.
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It's because of the minor imperfections in the placement of the mirrors. Also, because the effect can't be seen without seeing it at an angle, it causes a curve based on your viewpoint.
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It depends on the length of the mirrors.
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No.  A mirage can be created by light rays being bent to reflect and refract light.  This often takes the form of water on roadways when it is not really there.  It can also show a reflection of buildings that exist, but are not where a person is seeing them.  Water mirages are most common however.
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When a mirror is hit by particles of light called photons, it reflects the photons back to us. When photons hit a smooth surface like a mirror, they bounce back off of the mirror at roughly the same angle at which they hit the object, creating a reflection that looks the same.
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A white object spreads the light into many directions. A mirror doesn't, it instead keeps the light focused, which is why we can see our images.