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Key fact for two successive reflections from inclined plane mirrors
If a ray reflects successively from two plane mirrors inclined at an angle , then the net change in direction of the ray depends only on and is equal to Here, So the angle through which the direction of the ray turns is -
Meaning of total deviation
In optics, the total deviation is the angle between the original straight-line direction of the incident ray (produced forward) and the final emergent ray.
Since the ray has turned by , the deviation is the reflex angle associated with this geometry: -
Check with given extra data
The given reflection at is ; this helps fix the actual path but does not change the standard result that two reflections from mirrors inclined at produce a net turning of , hence total deviation in the convention used here. -
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