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This website, from the Physics Classroom, offers a detailed physics tutorial for high school students explaining how images are produced by two mirrors that meet at a right angle. The page gives a thorough description, with images and ray diagrams included. A link leads to a page describing multiple images produced by mirrors that meet at an oblique angle.
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