The following diagram shows a point object O placed in front of a plane mirror. Take two rays from the point O and show how the image of O is formed and seen by the eye.

State four characteristics of the image formed by a plane mirror.

You are standing at a distance 2 metre from a plane mirror.

(a) What is the distance of your image from the mirror?

(b) What is the distance between you and your image?

What is meant by lateral inversion of an image in a plane mirror? Explain it with the help of a ray diagram.