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Let the distance covered by the ray after reflection from a surface be d.From the first law of reflection and alternate angle property, all the angles shown in the figure are equal to $30^o$. From the figure, $tan 30^o = \frac{d}{0.2}\times \frac{1}{\sqrt 3}$
$ d = \frac{2}{10\sqrt 3} m $
The ray will not undergo reflection after it emerges out of the arrangement, i.e., after the ray covers $2\sqrt 3$ m.
Therefore the maximum number of reflections that occur =$\frac{2\sqrt 3}{2}{10\sqrt 3} = 30$ |