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Subject: fixed beam
Category: Science > Physics
Asked by: daisy001-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 07 Mar 2005 11:48 PST
Expires: 06 Apr 2005 12:48 PDT
Question ID: 486251
Show a diagram that, when a mirror with a fixed beam incident on its
rotated through a certain angle, the reflected beam is rotated through
an angle twice as large.
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Subject: Re: fixed beam
From: siliconsamurai-ga on 07 Mar 2005 12:18 PST
 
since we are limited to plain text, that question might be difficult
to answer as posed.
Subject: Re: fixed beam
From: athena4-ga on 07 Mar 2005 17:59 PST
 
http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/Flash/Reflection/Reflection.swf
shows a picture you can manipulate.  See the "more complex case" on
the second page.

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy2005/solutions/ch26.html  has a
small static picture (initially, the angle between the incident and
reflected beams is 0 deg, mirror is rotated 20 degrees and you can see
the angle between the beams is 40 degrees.

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