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If a mirror gets turned through an angle the reflected ray also gets turned through certain angles suppose the plane mirror is turned through 30° prove by using laws of reflection that the reflected ray turns by 60°.

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Consider a plane mirror and a fixed incident ray of light reflecting from the surface at an angle θ. Before the mirror has rotated, the angle of incidence is θ as is the angle of reflection.
If the mirror is rotated by an angle of 30, the normal is rotated by an angle of 30; thus, the angle of incidence increases to θ + 30. Therefore, the angle of reflection must also increase by θ to θ + 30 .

Difference between the final angle of reflection and the initial angle of reflection = 2×30=60o


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