!!APPEAR UPSIDE DOWN IN A MIRROR AND RIGHTSIDE UP IN A SPOON!! (CONCAVE AND CONVEX MIRRORS) SCIENCE

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!!APPEAR UPSIDE DOWN IN A MIRROR AND RIGHTSIDE UP IN A SPOON!! (CONCAVE AND CONVEX MIRRORS) SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

Crazy Chris is flipping upside down and right side up and shows you how appear upside down in a mirror and rightside up in the concave part of a spoon!

Objective: To understand how light bounces off of a convex and concave mirrors and to understand the focal point of light.

Materials Needed:
- Large Spoon
- Vanity Mirror

Step 1) Get a large kitchen spoon and face the concave end towards you. Notice that you are upside down.

Step 2) Move the spoon close to your face untill you see yourself rightside up.

Step 3) Get a vanity mirror and notice that when you look into it you appear right side up.

Step 4) Step back from the vanity mirror and notice that you flip upside down.

HOW THIS WORKS:
A convex mirror is a reflective surface that bulges towards the light. Convex mirrors like a holiday ornament, reflect light outwards so that the beams of light creat bounce off in all directions creating a stretched out image.
A concave mirror is a reflective surface that bulges away form the light. Concave mirrors like the concave side of a spoon, reflect light inwards so that the beams of light creat a focal point or the point where the beams of light cross. Because light beams cross each other, once past the focal point, the image gets reversed. Which is why you see yourself upside down in the concave side of the spoon. When you move the spoon close to your face you view the image before the focal point which is why you can make yourself appear right side up. This is same reason that the vanity mirror flips you upside down when you back away. The only difference between the vanity mirror and the concave side of the spoon is that when you look into the vanity mirror, you are inside the focal point of light beams, which makes you appear larger. When you pass the vanity mirrors focal point the light beams cross and you flip upside down.

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!!APPEAR UPSIDE DOWN IN A MIRROR AND RIGHTSIDE UP IN A SPOON!! (CONCAVE AND CONVEX MIRRORS) SCIENCE

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  • there was no sound but i turned it all the way up and it was sone wierd crazy sound like something i cant expalin

  • @Omg581 you must be using a portable device to watch this show thats why the sound is so low.

  • i can do this easy, hang up side down

  • @LFDHxGamingX thats way more ocmplicated then this :D

  • lol i really needed the laughs from you vids :) 

  • @ma5rs awesome Im glad i could share a laugh with you :D

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  • @Pegasusthebeyblade Thats right, when light passes through the lens in your eye the light gets bent, crosses and your eye sees everything upside down but your brain corrects this information so you see everything rightside up.

  • isn't this like your eye but your brain makes everything rightside up?

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