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Riddle: How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?

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Physics Girl riddle: what happens to your image if you bend a spoon from concave to convex?
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Sources:
Halliday Resnick and Walker, Chapter 36, starting on pg. 1140
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/RayTrace/Mirrors.html
Images:
https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann14010a/ credit: ESO
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1152/ credit: ESO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics#/media/File:A_Laser_Strike_at_the_Galactic_Center.jpg

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