Harry is standing 2 m in front of a flat mirror. How far behind the mirror is his image and what is the magnification of the image?

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Deep
Apr 20, 2017

2m behind the mirror

Explanation:

Image of Harry will be at the same distance from the mirror as Harry from the mirror i.e. 2m .
Magnification of image will be 1 . Since magnification is defined the ratio of size of image to the size of body and in case of flat mirror the body and its image are of same size .

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