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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Magic World of Mirrors

verfasst von : Eli Maor

Erschienen in: To Infinity and Beyond

Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston

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Everyone has, at one time or another, been fascinated by mirrors. Even animals. I remember once watching a cat staring with puzzlement at a mirror, no doubt wondering who that other fellow cat behind the shiny surface was. The laws of optics play here a subtle trick: a ray of light falling on a mirror is reflected at exactly the same angle at which it hit the mirror1, creating the illusion that a hidden object appears from behind the mirror (Fig. 19.1).

Metadaten
Titel
The Magic World of Mirrors
verfasst von
Eli Maor
Copyright-Jahr
1987
Verlag
Birkhäuser Boston
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5394-5_19

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