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What are the characteristics of a plane mirror image?

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Reflection of light is the bouncing of light rays off a medium.

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First Law of Reflection:

The incident ray, reflected ray and the normal all lie in the same plane.

Second Law of Reflection:

The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

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Longitudinal wave is a wave in which the movment of particles in the medium is parallel to the direction of a wave motion.

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Transverse wave is a wave in which the movement of particles in the medium is perpendicular to the direction of a wave motion.

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Wavefront is an imaginary line on a wave that joins all points in the same phase.

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Amplitude is the maximum displacement of a particle in a wave from its rest position.

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Period is the time taken to produce one complete wave.

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Wavelength is the shortest distance between any 2 points in a wave that are in phase.