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Consider a ray of light traveling in a vacuum from point P1 to

P2 by way of the point Q on a plane mirror, Enter question
seen below. Show that
Fermat's principle implies that, on the actual path followed, Q
lies in the same

vertical plane as P1and P2 and obeys the law of

reflection, that
1=
2. [Hints: Let the mirror lie in the xz
plane, and let P1 lie on
the y axis at (0, yi, 0) and P2 in the xy plane at (x2, y2, 0).
Finally let Q = (x, 0, z).
Calculate the time for the light to
traverse the path P1QP2 and show that it is minimum when Q has z =
0 Continue to post
and satisfies the law of reflection.]

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Consider a ray of light traveling in vacuum from point P1 to P2 by
way of the point Q on a plane miror as shown in
Fig. 1. Show that
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