Unpolarized light passes through two ideal Polaroid sheets. The axis of the first is vertical and the axis of the second is at 40.0° to the vertical. What fraction of the incident light is transmitted? Three polarizing plates whose planes are parallel are centered on a common axis. The directions of the transmission axes relative to the common vertical direction are shown in the figure below. A linearly polarized beam of light with plane of polarization parallel to the vertical reference direction is incident from the left onto the first disk with intensity I, = 11.0 units (arbitrary). Calculate the transmitted intensity I, when 0₁ = 21.0°, 0₂ = 41.0°, and 03 = 59.0°. Hint: Make repeated use of Malus's law. If= units I; 0₁ 0₂ 0₂ 4₁

Unpolarized light passes through two ideal Polaroid sheets. The axis of the first is vertical and the axis of the second is at 40.0° to the vertical. What fraction of the incident light is transmitted? Three polarizing plates whose planes are parallel are centered on a common axis. The directions of the transmission axes relative to the common vertical direction are shown in the figure below. A linearly polarized beam of light with plane of polarization parallel to the vertical reference direction is incident from the left onto the first disk with intensity I, = 11.0 units (arbitrary). Calculate the transmitted intensity I, when 0₁ = 21.0°, 0₂ = 41.0°, and 03 = 59.0°. Hint: Make repeated use of Malus's law. If= units I; 0₁ 0₂ 0₂ 4₁

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1CQ: Estimate the order of magnitude of the length, in meters, of each of the following; (a) a mouse, (b)...

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

In the figure, initially unpolarized light is sent into a system of three polarizing sheets whose polarizing directions make angles of 0 = 35°, 02 = 25°, and 03 = 34° with the direction of the y axis. What percentage of the light's initial intensity is transmitted by the system? Number i Units
Three perfect polarizers are placed in sequence and receive incoming light from one side as shown in the figure below. The first polarizer has its optic axis oriented vertically. The second is oriented ? = 26.0 degrees to one side of vertical. The third is oriented horizontally.What fraction of the incoming intensity gets through the first polarizer? I1/I0 = What fraction of the incoming intensity gets through both the first and second polarizers? I2/I0 = What fraction of the incoming intensity gets through the first, second, and third polarizers? I3/I0 = How much intensity would get through if the second and third polarizers were exchanged? I3/I0 =
Experiments show that the ground spider Drassodes cupreus uses one of its several pairs of eyes as a polarization detector In fact, the two eyes in this pair have polarization directions that are at right angles to one another Suppose linearly polarized light with an intensity of 775 W/m² shines from the sky onto the spider and that the intensity transmitted by one of the polarizing eyes is 774 W/m². For this eye, what is the angle between the polarization direction of the eye and the polarization direction of the incident light?
Three perfect polarizers are placed in sequence and receive incoming light from one side as shown in the figure below. The first polarizer has its optic axis oriented vertically. The second is oriented 0 = 33.8 degrees to one side of vertical. The third is oriented horizontally. Unpolarized Light Intensity = lo Polarized Light Intensity = 13 Polarized Light Intensity = 1₂ Polarized Light Intensity = 1₁ What fraction of the incoming intensity gets through the first polarizer? 1₁/10 What fraction of the incoming intensity gets through both the first and second polarizers? I₂/10 = What fraction of the incoming intensity gets through the first, second, and third polarizers? 13/10 = How much intensity would get through if the second and third polarizers were exchanged? 13/10 = =
Problem 1: A beam of polarized light is sent into a system of two polarizing sheets. Relative to the polarization direction of that incident light, the polarizing directions of the sheets are at angles for the first sheet and 90° for the second sheet. If 0.10 of the incident intensity is transmitted by the two sheets, what is 0?
For each of the three sheets of polarizing material shown in the drawing, the orientation of the transmission axis is labeled relative to the vertical. The incident beam of light is unpolarized and has an intensity of 1350 W/m². What is the intensity of the beam transmitted through the three sheets when 01= 19.9°, 02= 50.8°, and A3 = 98.2°? Transmitted Vertical beam Incident beam
Light passes through two different polarizers. The first is aligned vertically, while the second is aligned horizontally. How much light makes it through the two polarizers?
Consider an EM wave in vacuum which has an electric field given by: refer to image. What are the respective directions of the magnetic field and EM wave propagation at \( t = 0 \) and \( x = 0 \)?
If plane-polarized light is sent through two polarizers, the first at 15° to the original plane of polarization and the second at 90° to the original plane of polarization, what fraction of the original polarized intensity passes through the last polarizer?
A.) Polarized light is incident on 6 polarizing sheets. The axis of the first polarized sheet makes an angle 0 with the plane of polarization. Each subsequent sheet has an axis that is rotated by an angle e from that of adjacent sheets. Find e if 34% of the incident intensity is transmitted by the sheets. B.) Suppose you want to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of polarized light by 78°, but you do not want the final intensity to be less than 53% of the initial intensity. What is the minimum number of polarizing sheets you must use? Assume that each sheet is rotated the same angle relative to the adjacent sheets. sheets
Unpolarized light of intensity lo =208 W/m² passes through a first polarizer with its polarizing axis in the vertical position and then through a second polarizer oriented an angle of 84 degrees with the first polarizer. What is the intensity of the light emerging from the second polarizer? Enter you answer in W/m2 with one decimal place precision.
Please Asap