Reflecting Prism -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Reflecting Prism

A prism for which the deflection angle of light satisfies

(1)

For an internal reflection (or a reflection from a silvered surface),

(2)

From Snell's law, this is equivalent to

(3)

Therefore,

(4)

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