Falling light. According to general relativity and the equivalence principle, light is bent by gravity. Suppose you stand two tall, perfectly reflecting mirrors exactly 1 m apart and facing each other. A beam of light is directed horizontally through a hole in one of the mirrors 10 m above the ground. (a) Determine the time it takes for the light to strike the ground. (b) The light will undergo N reflections (i.e., N/2 reflections from each mirror) before it strikes the ground. Find N.
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