What is the difference between the light rays reflected from a mirror and rays directly emitted from a screen if the screen shows the same image as the mirror would.
[Physics] Difference between mirror reflected light rays and rays of a screen
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Best Answer
Distance to the image is the big difference.
The reflected image in a plane mirror is composed of rays that appear to come from a point behind the mirror (by the same distance that the image that is being reflected is in front of the mirror: $d_0 = d_i$). For non-plane mirrors you'll have to work a little harder, but locally spherical bits can be treated with the usual $$ \frac{1}{f} = \frac{1}{d_i} + \frac{1}{d_o} \,.$$
The light rays emanating from a screen come from the surface of the screen.