Q.
One face AC of the glass prism is silvered as shown and the principal section of a glass prism is an isosceles triangle ABC with AB=AC. The ABAC, if the ray incident normally on the face AB and after two reflections, it energies from the base BC. perpendicular to it, is:
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Solution:
$ \alpha +2\beta ={{180}^{o}} $ and $ \beta =2\alpha $ $ \alpha ={{36}^{o}} $
