What is the normal in a diagram showing light rays?
The normal at a point on a mirror is a line drawn perpendicular to the mirror.
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What is an angle of incidence?
The angle of incidence is the angle between the incident ray and the normal.
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What is an angle of reflection?
The angle of reflection is the angle between the reflected ray and the normal.
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How is an image formed by a plane mirror?
The image formed by a plane mirror is virtual, the same size as the object, upright (the same way up as the object) and laterally inverted (back to front but not upisde down).
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What is the law of reflection?
the angle of incidence = the angle of reflection
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What is an angle of incidence?
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The angle of incidence is the angle between the incident ray and the normal.
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