help i am a high school student and in need of big help... Explain the difference between a real image and a virtual image. which one is formed by a plane mirror?

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anonymous · Answer

A virtual image is an image that appears to exist but is not made by light rays while a real image is made of light rays focusing to form an image

anonymous · Answer

By plane mirror do you mean flat mirror? Flat mirrors produce virtual images while concave mirrors form real images.

matt101 · Answer

What @rdr006 said is correct. Put another way, in the case of mirrors, virtual images appear behind the mirror (in the "mirror world"), while real images appear in the real world. This is because the light rays that form the image only exist in the real world.

shamim · Answer

we can show a real image on any screen but we can not show a virtual image on any screen

shamim · Answer

Reflected light really meet to form a real image

shamim · Answer

But reflected do not really meet to form a virtual image

shamim · Answer

I think an image formed by a plane mirror can not b shown on any screen. Right?

anonymous · Answer

Real images are images formed when the reflected rays actually meet. Since they intersect they can be obtained on a screen.

Virtual images are images formed when reflected rays appear to meet at a point but actually do not. The rays appear to be diverging from some point. But we still see the image because the lens in our eyes converge the rays onto our retina.

Basically, real images are always inverted and virtual images are always erect.

Hope this helps!

anonymous · Answer

real image can be caught on a screen where as virtual images cannot be caught on a screen

anonymous · Answer

I forgot to mention, a plane mirror always forms a virtual image