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A Spoon (Concave Mirror)
So when I was eating dinner, I looked into my spoon and realized that it was a concave mirror! Just like the one in the lab! When I held my spoon about an arm's length away I could see my face, but it was upside down. This is because the object, my face, was farther in front of the spoon than the focal length of the spoon. I tried to create an upright image by moving the spoon closer to my face and making the distance less than the focal length of the spoon. However, I blocked out the light by moving the spoon too close to my face and I could no longer see an image in the spoon. This is because you can only see an image in a mirror if light rays bounce off an object and hit your eyes. I tried using a smaller object, my finger, and I could see the inverted image of my finger turn into an upright image as I moved my finger closer to the spoon. The distance at which the inverted image of my finger turned into an upright image is the focal length of the spoon. Since the spoon has a reflective surface on both sides, the other side of the spoon is also a mirror. The other side is a convex mirror. This mirror also distorted the image of my face, but as opposed to the image in the concave mirror, the image of my face was still upright with a bigger nose and smaller objects around me.
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