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AP Physics 2
13.2 Images Formed by Mirrors
13.1 Reflection
IntermediateMCQDrawing RepresentationsConceptual14.8k
Two perpendicular thick gray line segments meet at the bottom-left corner to form a right angle: a horizontal segment labeled Mirror 1 along the bottom and a vertical segment labeled Mirror 2 along the left. A single straight solid line with an arrow pointing downward and to the left approaches Mirror 1. A vertical dashed normal line is drawn perpendicular to Mirror 1 at the point of contact, with the angle between the incoming ray and the vertical dashed line labeled \theta. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Incident ray approaching two perpendicular mirrors.
Two flat, planar mirrors are joined at a right angle (90^\(90^\circ\)). A ray of monochromatic light traveling in the plane of the page is incident on the horizontal mirror at an angle \(\theta\) relative to the surface normal, where \(0^\circ < \theta < 90^\circ\), and subsequently reflects toward the vertical mirror. Which of the following diagrams correctly represents the complete path of the light ray and its reflections off both mirrors?

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