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Question
What is meant by lateral inversion of an image in a plane mirror? Explain it with the help of a ray diagram.
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Solution
The interchange of the left and right sides in the image of an object in a plane mirror is called lateral inversion.
Figure above shows the image formation of a letter P in a plane mirror. The letter P appears in the plane mirror as 
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