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Chapter 34: 11. (page 989)

When you look at your reflection in the bowl of a spoon, it is upside down. Why?

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A spoon bowl acts as a concave mirror

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01

Given info

A spoon (equivalent to concave mirror)

Face (Object)

Resultant image which is inverted

02

Explanation

When we look into a spoon (concave side)

The upper part of our face gets reflected downwards and the lower part gets reflected towards upwards and therefore as a result we get an inverted image (upside down image).

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