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Homework Statement
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You are preparing to go shopping for a plane mirror that will be hung on the wall of your dressing room. Your overall height is H = 2.3 m, and the vertical distance from the floor to the mid-line of your eyes is H1 = 2.18 m. You want the mirror to be tall enough to allow you to view your entire body from the tip of your head to the soles of your feet, while standing a horizontal distance D = 2.7 m from the mirror. Being frugal, you want to purchase the smallest possible mirror.
(a) What height d above the floor should the bottom of the mirror be mounted?
d = 1.09m
(b) What is the minimum required mirror height (vertical dimension)?
hmin = 1.15m
(c) If instead, you want to be able to view your entire body in the mirror while standing at twice the distance away, D' = 6 m, what is the minimum required mirror height in this case?
h'min = 1.15m
(d) Return now to the mirror height and viewing distance of part (b). Suppose you wish to take a picture of yourself in the mirror using a camera that you hold exactly at mid-height (lens at a distance H/2 above the floor). What height s above the floor should you place the top of the mirror so that the top of your head is just included in the image? (Assume the camera field-of-view is wide enough to image the entire mirror.)
s = ? m
(e) In the configuration of part (d), what amount ΔH of your lower body (feet and legs) will be cut off in the photographic image?
ΔH = 0m
(f) If you move toward the mirror at 3.6 m/s, how fast will your image be moving toward you?
|v| = 7.2 m/s
Homework Equations
mirror = 1/2 h to see full height of man
The Attempt at a Solution
I cannot seem to get a right answer for part d no matter what I do.
Camera is at 1.15m off the ground and has to be at least 1.15m tall