Eli5: How Plane mirror can show full image of the object when the size of the given mirror is half of the height of that object ?

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When light hits a mirror it reflects at the same angle it came in on. Think of photons like a que ball that bounces off a rail perfectly.

One implication of this is that if you shine a light from some plane to a mirror parallel to that plane the light will reflect off the mirror on a spot exactly between where you shone the light from and where it returns to the plane.

If you stand a plane mirror in front of you the light that reaches your eye from your foot hits the mirror half way up from your foot to your eye. The light from the top of your head that reaches your eye hits the mirror half way between your eye and the top of your head. Light from any other part of your body that reaches your eye will reflect off the mirror somewhere between those two. You don’t need any mirror outside that area.

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