Zoom Maths Club - Reflections on a Laser Beam - Professor Rodi Herzberg
27th February 2021
Inspired by a problem on Project Euler
(projecteuler.net), we will explore multiple reflections of a
laser beam in a cavity, asking in how many different ways you can do an internal
reflection before leaving through the entrance hole. The journey to a solution will
allow us to talk about maths, physics, coprime numbers, non-orthogonal grids
and alternative measures of distance. We will have to think both inside and
outside the box for this one.