Term for mirror image sides shift

[Knightycloud]

Homework Statement

I've done physics in a non-english medium and I want to know what is the technical term to call the incident where the image is flipped vertical through a mirror. I mean if we stand infront of a mirror and raise the right arm, the mirror image shows we're raising the left arm. What is this incident called?

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in my language it's called 'Parshvika apawarthanaya'
somehow translated to English, it's like 'Partial ...'

 

[voko]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_symmetry

 

[Knightycloud]

Thanks! But that's not what I'm looking for! :( something like 'flipping sides'??

 

[voko]

This one perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_reflection

What is your language? Google cannot determine it automatically.

 

[Knightycloud]

My language is 'Sinhala'. Google doesn't support! Not that point reflection either! :( I'm asking when looking through a mirror, sides are flipped right? What is the physics term for that incident?

Like, "Bending of light rays when passing through a surface between one transparent material and another, is called Refraction

 

[voko]

The technical term for that is "reflection": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(mathematics ).

 

[Curious3141]

Do you mean "lateral inversion"? The adjective form is "laterally inverted".

 

[Vibhor]

Homework Statement

I've done physics in a non-english medium and I want to know what is the technical term to call the incident where the image is flipped vertical through a mirror. I mean if we stand infront of a mirror and raise the right arm, the mirror image shows we're raising the left arm. What is this incident called?

This is termed as "left-right reversal"