Y by centslordm
A light hitting a mirror at angle
measured from the perpendicular is reflected at angle
on the other side of the perpendicular. The rough diagram here shows a cross section of the pentagonal prism found in some cameras, where sides
and
are mirrors and the angles
and
are equal. Light entering the prism is reflected twice, and emerges at
to its original path. What is the angle
?










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