
Episode 52: Applications of Optics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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How Curved Mirrors Work
If the angle was just right between them so that they were exactly parallel you would see if you could somehow look in between them without locking the light an infinite number of images reflected further and further deeper into the mirror. In order to get a truly infinite number ofimages in parallel mirrors you would have to have them perfectly parallel which is not really possible in the real world but it's pretty cool when you have two mirrors in front of each other. Unlike flat mirrors curved mirrors do not preserve all of the angles and relationships of the light rays so that means they distort the size and shape of images.
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