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What type of our own image is visible to us in shaving mirror?

The image which is visible to us in the shaving mirror is real and inverted.

When we look into the mirror, we are farther than the focal length of the mirror, thus our eyes try to image the real image formed by the mirror on the mirror itself. Thus, we just assume that the image is formed on the mirror, but that is not true for that case if we bring our eye very close to the mirror we would no longer see the image on the mirror because the image is now virtual.


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