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Cylindrical Mirror
published by the Exploratorium
This Exploratorium site contains an activity to produce images with a cylindrical mirror.  The mirror is made of aluminized Mylar backed with construction paper.  The site provides diagrams to explain the observed effects and also explains why a flat mirror seems to reverse right and left but not up and down.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cylindrical-mirror
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Optics
- Geometrical Optics
- High School
- Middle School
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
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Keywords:
image , invert, mirror, reflect
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created June 14, 2006 by Ann Deml
Record Updated:
August 2, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
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(Exploratorium, San Francisco), WWW Document, (https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cylindrical-mirror).
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Cylindrical Mirror (Exploratorium, San Francisco), <https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cylindrical-mirror>.
APA Format
Cylindrical Mirror. (n.d.). Retrieved May 2, 2025, from Exploratorium: https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cylindrical-mirror
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Exploratorium. Cylindrical Mirror. San Francisco: Exploratorium. https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cylindrical-mirror (accessed 2 May 2025).
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Cylindrical Mirror. San Francisco: Exploratorium. 2 May 2025 <https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cylindrical-mirror>.
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@misc{ Title = {Cylindrical Mirror}, Publisher = {Exploratorium}, Volume = {2025}, Number = {2 May 2025}, Year = {} }
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