Reflection by Porro Prisms

• Autores: Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 48, Nº. 4, 2010, pág. 240
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Students all know that reflection from a plane mirror produces an image that is reversed right to left and so cannot be read by anyone but Leonardo da Vinci, who kept his notes in mirror writing. A useful counterexample is the Porro prism, which produces an image that is notreversed