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A plane mirror hinged at O is free to rotate in a vertical plane. The point O is at a distance x from a long screen placed in front of the mirror as shown in figure. A laser beam of light incident vertically downward is reflected by he mirror at O so that a bright spot is formed at the screen.
At the instant shown, the angle of inclidence is θ and the mirror is rotating clockwise with constant angular velocity w. Find the speed of the spot at this instant.


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2x w sec2ϕ
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2xw cos2ϕ
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2x w sin2ϕ
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2x w tan2ϕ
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Solution

The correct option is A 2x w sec2ϕ

Let P be the bright spot, shown on the screen, Let the distance of point P from O' be y at this instant shown in figure
dydt=?
From the figure,



θ+θ+ϕ=90 (1)θ+ϕ+α=90(2) θ=αϕ+2θ=90 ϕ+2α=90dϕdt+2dαdt=0 dϕdt=2dαdt
So, the angular spped of the reflected ray is double the angular speed of the mirror since,
y=x tanϕ dydt=s sec2ϕdϕdt=2xwsec2ϕ

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