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What is meant by lateral inversion of an image formed by a plane mirror ?
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View full question & answer→When we observe ourselves in a plane mirror, we see the left of our body becomes the right of our body. This behaviour of plane mirrors according to which the sides of an object gets , reversed is called lateral inversion. In other words, the right of the object becomes the left of the image and vice, versa. Due to lateral inversion of the image formed in a plane mirror ‘ it becomes difficult to read the text reflected by it. The letter B looks like a, D will look like Q, L will look like J and so on.