Using a fast-pulsed laser and electronic timing circuitry, you find that light travels 2.50 m within a plastic rod in 11.5 ns. a. What is the refractive index of the plastic?     A polarizer and an analyzer are oriented so that the maximum amount of light is transmitted. To what fraction of its max value is the intensity of the transmitted light reduced when the analyzer is rotated through… a) 5 degrees   b.) 45 degrees

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Using a fast-pulsed laser and electronic timing circuitry, you find that light travels 2.50 m within a plastic rod in 11.5 ns.

a. What is the refractive index of the plastic?

 

 

A polarizer and an analyzer are oriented so that the maximum amount of light is transmitted. To what fraction of its max value is the intensity of the transmitted light reduced when the analyzer is rotated through…

a) 5 degrees

 

b.) 45 degrees

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