can the image formed by a plane mirror be projected onto a screen?

No, the images formed on a plane mirror cannot be projected on a screen because it is a virtual image. Only real images can be projected onto a screen.

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Any image that can be formed on a screen are called real image. Such images are formed by light rays emanating from the object, when reflected and/or refracted by devices such as lenses and mirrors converge at some specific point.

In contrast thee are other images which are formed by the rays of light reaching the observer appearing to converge at some point. This happens when the rays reaching the observer are diverging and when the line of these rays are projected backward these lines converge. Such images images, which  cannot be formed on a screen, are called virtual images.


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no, an image formed by a plane mirror cannot be projected onto a screen.

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No a plane mirror forms an image of the object which is a virtual image.It cannot form on a screen as the image forms on the surface of the plane mirror not On the plane mirror.

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