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A ray of light is incident on a plane mirror at an angle of $30^{0}$ . what is the angle of reflection?

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The incident ray will have an angle of reflection of 30 degrees (made with a surface normal to the mirror surface). The reflected ray will make an angle of 60 degrees (90 - 30 degrees) with the mirror surface

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