Why do mirrors flip horizontally (but not vertically)?

Physics Girl · 6.2M views · 2015 · 3:47

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Explains the optical illusion of mirrors flipping images horizontally but not vertically.

Linked by 11 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including dyndns.org, sciencealert.com, libretexts.org, laughingsquid.com, mikyab.net.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Mirror image.