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RE: PROOF: The reflective property of a parabola

in #science7 years ago

Good stuff cabbage, would be beneficial if the explanation was in 'laymans' terms as well as scientific. Also an example of how we interact and experience in day to day life.

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I'll keep that in mind. A real world example of this is light beams hitting a paraboloid surface and reflecting off on an angle equal to the angle between the focal point and the incident beam relative to the parabola.