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Explain why your image never disappears and never flips over as you bring the convex mirror

close to your eye.

User Pavel Kirienko
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Step-by-step explanation:

When you get closer to the mirror than the focal point a virtual image is formed behind the mirror and this image is not inverted. That's why the image flips as you get closer. ... With a virtual image the light rays never come to a focus so there is no place you can put a piece of paper to see the image.

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