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Recap - Periscope

Part of the Optics, Waves and Modern Physics section of Coddy's Physics journey. Lesson 11 of 53.

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Challenge

A periscope is a tube with two flat mirrors, each at α = 45° to the tube, 0.8 m apart. Light from a ship 120 m away enters the top and reflects down the tube and out of the bottom into your eye. First find the angle of incidence θ on each mirror. Then: how far away does the ship's final image seem, measured from the bottom mirror (D)?

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