Monday, 28 November 2016

Magic Trick Revealed





Now You See Me, finds the world's greatest ragtag team of magicians, 'The Four Horsemen'. In one of their show, one of them make a magic with a box and rabbit. The secret from behind the scene is a plane mirror. The magician use law of reflection. So, the audience just see the reflection from the bottom of the box. The rabbit still sit in the box. They also use the same trick to make a robbery. They robbed a safe from a bank. They used a big mirror to deceive the police.



Law of reflection state that the incident ray, the reflected way and the normal all line in same plane and the angle of incidence, i equals the angle of reflection, r. The audience is the observer. Image formation by a plane mirror is vertical which is the bottom of the box. The characteristics of the image formed by the plane mirror are virtual image. Virtual image is seem to form by light coming from the image but light does not actually pass through the image. The image would not appear on paper, screen or film placed at the location of the image. The image also formed upright and the object distance, u equals the image distance, v. This all characteristic obey the law of reflection.


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