How+do+one-way+mirrors+work?

__**HOW DO ONE-WAY MIRRORS WORK?**__

Answer the question below, append new answers to the top of this page. _ __Response 1:__ How Do One-Way Mirrors Work? Unlike normal mirrors, the silver layer is so thin, that only reflects half the light and the other half passes through the mirror. If you looked at the molecules, you would see that only about half the glass was coated with the silver so that is you looked really closely, you would more or less see speckles of silver. So it doesn’t really reflect on one side and see through the other, how a one-way mirror would do this is through different lightings in different rooms. The side where the light is reflected needs to have really bright lights, and the side where you can see through and the lights passes through to need dimmed lights. If the lighting was the same, both sides could see each other. It’s just like a stereo blasting music in one room and a person whispering in another. The sound of the person whispering would still carry out, but be drowned out by the loud music.
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Citation: [] [] __Additional Responses:__ TERM 2 Questions of Science By: Joseph The question that interested me a lot was categorized in optics. The question is ‘How do one way mirrors work?’ I found out that the room the person is being interrogated is kept really bright, so there are a lot of light molecules to bounce off the mirror. The other side is kept really dark so that the person on the other side won't be able to tell there's another person looking on the other side. If the two rooms were kept at around the same lighting level, the person being interrogated would be able to see through the mirror, and into the other room. Some things I have been wondering are: “What are one way mirrors? Are they a different type of mirror? One-way mirrors have a reflective coating that is applied in a very thin, scattered layer. It's called a half-silvered surface. The name half-silvered comes from the reflective molecules that cover the glass so thinly, that only about half the molecules needed to make the glass are applied. At the molecular level, there are reflective molecules speckled all over the glass. The half-silvered surface will reflect about half the light that strikes its surface, while letting the other half go straight through. From the research above, it shows that one-way mirrors work differently from a normal mirror.

Citation: [] By Michelle Bryner 19 March 2010 8:49 AM ET [] "How do one-way mirrors work?" 12 July 2000. HowStuffWorks.com.  01 December 2011.

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