2. An object is seen at the point from which light rays diverge. Our brains have been trained by experience to believe that the light has traveled from the object to the eye in a straight line. The intersection of the light rays occurs only at their source.

3. Light originates from the sun or a light bulb and then bounces off the object and into our eye.

4. Light passes through a mirror, lens, or a bottle of water that bends the diverging rays from the object and redirected them to the observer. The brain does not perceive light changing direction while traveling from the object to the eye. The eye “sees” the object directly ahead. Because there is no real light coming from the image, it is called a virtual image.

5. An unknown something bends the rays so that they converge and then diverge from a point in space between your eye and the bending object. The observer will see an image of the lamp much closer. Since light actually does diverge from the image point, the observer sees a real image.

6. In the previous example, the observer has to be in the cone of rays diverging from the image point in order to see the real image. If a screen is placed at the image point, rays will be scattered in all directions so that many observers can see the same image. An example of a device that creates a real image is the movie projector in a theater.

8. Eye and mirror simulation

9. Light from the object does not make it to his eye so he is unable to see the image of the object in the mirror.

11. When each line of sight is extended backwards, each line will intersect at the same point. This point is the image point of the object.

13. LAW OF REFLECTION

14. If you replace left and right with east and west direction is not changed. North and south is reversed therefore it is the front-back axis that is reversed causing an appearance of left-right image reversal.

17. 1.Virtual image 2.Left-right reversal 3.Object distance = image distance 4.Object size is the same. No magnification.