Question

What is the difference between a real image and a virtual image? Give one example of each type of image

Answer 1

S. No	Real Image	Virtual Image
1.	An image that can be projected on a screen is called a real image.	An image that cannot be projected on a screen is called a virtual image.
2.	The light rays actually meet at the point of image formation.	The light rays do not actually meet at the point of image formation, but appear to meet there.
3.	Example: the image formed on the screen i	Example: the image formed by a plane mirror.