What fraction of light (unpolarized) passes through a perfect polarizer? Explain why your answer makes sense. Now we add a second polarizer with its axis inclined at an angle of 22 degrees relative to the first. What fraction of light incident on the second polarizer passes through? What fraction of light entering the first polarizer emerges from the second? Explain why this makes sense.

What fraction of light (unpolarized) passes through a perfect polarizer? Explain why your answer makes sense. Now we add a second polarizer with its axis inclined at an angle of 22 degrees relative to the first. What fraction of light incident on the second polarizer passes through? What fraction of light entering the first polarizer emerges from the second? Explain why this makes sense.

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