What is the angle between the incident ray and the reflected ray?

Question

The ray of light strikes the mirror at 48 degrees

Answer 1

Angle of incidence = angle of reflection = 48 degrees

Answer 2

The reflected ray will be the same angle from the mirror as the incident ray but on the other side of the normal.

Splitting the mirror at the position of reflection the two halfs of the mirror are 180 degrees, the two rays are both 48 degrees from their half of the mirror.
The rays will be 180 - 48 -48 = 84 degrees apart.

Answer 3

The angle between the normal and the incident ray equals the angle between the normal and reflected ray.

hence the angle between the two rays is 48 + 48 = 96 degrees

Answer 4

The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection so the angle between both is 48*2 =96degrees

Answer 5

Its been awhile but I hope this helps.

Doesn't the light reflect at the same angle that it hits.
If the line of the mirror is the X axis and the Y axis is 90degrees. The light hits at 48 90-48= 32 90+32= 122
So if we are asking what angle from 0 then the answer is 122degrees sorry I cant graph it for you

Answer 6

The angle of incidence
(angle between the incoming ray and the normal)

EQUALS

the angle of reflection
(angle between the normal and reflected ray.)

In other words:
2*(angle between incoming ray and normal)

equals

2 * 48 = 96 degrees.

THIS ASSUMES THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ANGLE BETWEEN THE INCOMING AND THE NORMAL!

If you are talking about the angle between a flat surface and the incoming ray (angle of elevation)

then

Angle of incidence = 90 - angle of elevation.
.

Answer 7

incident angle= reflected angle Therefore the angle between the two is just 2x the incident angle, or likewise 2x the reflected angle. In this case it's 2*(34.4)= 68.8.

Answer 8

Incident and reflected rays have equal angles.

The ones with different angles are incident and refracted rays.

For refraction use the formula

Refractive index (mu) = sin i/sin r

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28physics%29#Reflections

for normal reflection...they should be equal

Answer 10

normal