Reflection of a Plane MirrorThe most familiar of all reflecting surfaces is the plane mirror. Visible light radiation is reflected by its construction, which normally consists of a flat or flat piece of glass, on which a silver coating is placed which produces a reflection of visible light radiation. The movement of this radiation is inevitably quite unique. Its movement is similar to that of a wave in nature, but it can be broken down by drawing rays that demonstrate the direction of propagation of the wave. The use of waves allows individuals to decipher common characteristics of reflection, which include a fundamental relationship between the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection of radiation reflected from a surface. The meaning of angle of incidence and angle of reflection concerns the angle between the respective ray, incident or reflected, and a vector considered normal to the mirror surface. For a plane mirror, the normal vector is considered perpendicular to the plane of the mirror. There is a concept related to this called the "law of reflection", which states that the angle of incidence of an incident ray is equal to the angle of reflection. Here is an illustration of this law: Reflection of a plane mirror The consequences associated with the law of reflection are quite intriguing. For example, if you place an object (any object) in front of a mirror, the image appears to be the same distance behind the mirror as in front of the mirror. However, its appearance means that it will appear to be located the same distance behind the mirror as in front. However, the image will actually be inverted horizontally (i.e. the left of the image...... middle of paper ...... visible to the naked eye). This error can occur in a laboratory when the observer's eye is not perfectly aligned with the instrument being used. We may have read too high or too low a value when using the protractor to determine an angle and our data may have been altered by a very small degree of number. Finally, personal errors may have affected our data points from small but costly ones. things such as negligence, poor technique or even a member of my group being biased or myself. Our bias during this lab could have been due to a bias we had about how we assumed the data should have turned out. Forcing the data to equal the expected measurements in our angle may have caused slight changes in our angle degrees. Personal human error always plays a role in data distortion during labs and also occurred during our lab..