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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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Optics
- Geometrical Optics
= Reflection - Flat Surfaces
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
= Lesson/Lesson Plan
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© 1996 The Physics Classroom
Keywords:
multiple reflection, symmetry
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Metadata instance created January 10, 2009 by Logan Hancock
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June 30, 2011 by Tom Henderson
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(The Physics Classroom, 1996), WWW Document, (https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refln/U13L2e.cfm).
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Right Angle Mirrors (The Physics Classroom, 1996), <https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refln/U13L2e.cfm>.
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Right Angle Mirrors. (2008, January 11). Retrieved April 26, 2024, from The Physics Classroom: https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refln/U13L2e.cfm
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The Physics Classroom. Right Angle Mirrors. The Physics Classroom, January 11, 2008. https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refln/U13L2e.cfm (accessed 26 April 2024).
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Right Angle Mirrors. The Physics Classroom, 1996. 11 Jan. 2008. 26 Apr. 2024 <https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/refln/U13L2e.cfm>.
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