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The Physics Teacher -- January 2010 -- Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 26

Virtual Mirrors

Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

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The multiple‐reflection photograph in Fig. 1 was taken in an elevator on board the cruise ship Norwegian Jade in March 2008. Three of the four walls of the elevator were mirrored, allowing me to see the combination of two standard arrangements of plane mirrors: two mirrors set at 90° to each other and two parallel mirrors. Optical phenomena of this complexity are most easily approached by the Method of Virtual Mirrors.1

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physics education, optics, educational aids, mirrors, light reflection

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Online Dec 2009

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3274354



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