Mirrors



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Mirrors

Discussion

  1. How do you hold two mirrors so as to get an integral number of images of yourself? Discuss the handedness of the images.
  2. Set up two mirrors so as to make perfect kaleidoscopic patterns. How can you use them to make a snowflake?
  3. Fold and cut hearts out of paper. Then make paper dolls. Then honest snowflakes.
  4. Set up three or more mirrors so as to make perfect kaleidoscopic patterns. Fold and cut such patterns out of paper.
  5. Why does a mirror reverse right and left rather than up and down?



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Peter Doyle