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Homework Statement
Finding lightpaths with given starting and ending points via one or more mirrors.
In those kind of problems you try image someone pointing a laser with a very narrow beam at a certain direction to the mirror, so it will reach point B.
For example:
You are seeing a square mirror room (with mirrorwalls a, b, c, d) where you point from point A via the mirrors c, b, d and a to point B. A sketch can be made easily made.
a few times as shown in the image.
After the mirroring is done, the line connecting A is drawn towards the mirror image B '.
Question: Construct the path in the original square.
Complete the drawing.
Homework Equations
mirror images
The Attempt at a Solution
What do I need to do with those virtual squares? And why is the line drawn from A to B' through those other rooms?
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