Bird & Fish Refraction Homework | See How Many Images

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Homework Statement


A vessel is filled with water of refractive index 4/3.The height of the vessel is 60cm.A fish F is at 40 cm below the surface of water.A bird B is 30cm above the surface of water.The bottom of the vessel behaves as plane mirror. How many images of fish will be seen by the bird

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Real Depth/ Relative Depth= Refractive index of water[/B]

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So I think one of the images will be due to refraction from the surface of the water like in this case:
upload_2018-4-20_9-3-48.png
Now I think there should be one more image because there will be a plane mirror.So the fish will get reflected from the plane mirror but I am not sure what will follow after that.[/B]
 

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