When a sheet of plastic food wrap is placed between two crossed polarizers, no light is transmitted. When the sheet is stretched in one direction, some light passes through the crossed polarizers. What is happening?

Q: Unpolarized light passes through two polaroid filters that are oriented such that the angle between…

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Q: 1. (a) Light reflected at 63 degrees from a gemstone in a ring is completely polarized. Given that…

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Q: Can a sound wave be polarized? If not, why not?

A: Only those waves which are transverse in nature can be polarized. i.e. Electromagnetic waves

Q: Light from a red laser pointer (X=660 nm) emerges from a vertical (0°) polarizer with an intensity…

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Q: Does it make sense to talk about the polarization of a longitudinal wave, such as a sound wave? Why…

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Q: Unpolarized light falls on the two polarizing sheets placed one on top of the other. What must be…

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Q: As shown in the figure, initially unpolarized light passes through three polarizers. The…

A: Let the intensity of initial unpolarized light = Ioθ1 = 40oθ2 = 10oθ3 = 40o

Q: A beam of initially unpolarized light of intensity 786 W/m^2 passes through a series of polarizing…

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Q: The ground spider Drassodes cupreus like many spiders, has several pairs of eyes. It has been…

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Q: 16). You have polarized light and you want to reduce its intensity to 35% by using a polarizer. What…

A: The intensity of polarized light emitting out of a second polarizer placed at angle θ from the first…

Q: Unpolarized light passes through two Polaroid sheets. The transmission axis of the analyzer makes an…

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Q: Unpolarized light passes through two polarizers in turn, with polarization axes at 60° to each…

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Q: How the slit in Polarizing filters passes electromagnetic waves thathave an electric field parallel…

A: A polarizing filter contains several long chains of molecules along the axis perpendicular to its…

Q: 1. (a) Light reflected at 65 degrees from a gemstone in a ring is completely polarized. Given that…

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Q: Unpolarized light passes through two Polaroid sheets. The transmission axis of the analyzer makes an…

A: Given that: Angle made with axis = 33.5° By the formula of Intensity of Polarized light : IIo = cos2…

Q: Two polarizers are installed perpendicular to each other so that no light can pass through the two…

A: Given two polarizers  are installed perpendicular to each other such that No light can pass through…

Q: If you have completely polarized light of intensity 165  Wm2, what will its intensity be after…

A: We know intensity of light after passing through a polarizer is…

Q: Problem 1: There are three aligned polarizers. The 2nd polarizer is 20° to the 1st and the 3rd is…

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Q: Two polarizing sheets have their polarizing directions parallel. Determine the angle by which either…

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Q: The human cornea has a refractive index of 1.376. Determine the transmitted irradiance into the…

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Q: Unpolarized light falls on a polarizer with its axis in the vertical direction, then a second with…

A: Given that:- Angle with vertical in second polarizes=30°

Q: Light reflected at 62.5o from a gemstone in a ring is completely polarized. Can the gem be a…

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Q: he angle between the axes of two polarizing filters is 42.5°. By how much does the second filter…

A: The angle between the axes of two polarizing filters is θ= 42.5°  Let intensity of light coming…

Q: Two polarizers are oriented at 65º to one another. As a result, unpolarized light falls on them.…

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Q: Unpolarized light of intensity Io passes through two polarizing filters with polarization axes…

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Q: When a beam of unpolarized light passes through a polarizer, its intens depend on the orientation of…

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Q: beam of unpolarized light passes through two polarizers whose transmission axes are at an angle of…

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Q: A teacher does a demonstration using an overhead projector (I = 1810 lm; units are lumens) and three…

A: Intensity of incident light (I) = 1810 lumens

Q: An overhead projector is turned on so its light shines on the screen at the front of the classroom.…

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Q: If you have completely polarized light of intensity 150W/m^2 passes through two polarizing filters…

A: Given, Intensity (I)=150w/m² Angle=89degree

Q: (a) What is plane polarised light? Two polaroids are placed at 90° to each other and the transmitted…

A: To determine: (b) What does it mean, when a light beam shows no intensity cariation when it is…

Q: Unpolarized light passes through two ideal Polaroid sheets. The axis of the first is vertical and…

A: Given data:      The axis of the first polarized light is vertical.               The axis of the…

Q: The US Navy communicates with submerged submarines using frequency v= 76 Hertz radio waves. What is…

A: Given data: Frequency ν=76Hz Refractive index n=1.34

Q: There is a system of three polarizing sheets in the light path initially not polarized. The…

A: Let the initial intensity is I0. The light path initially not polarized.  The polarizing direction…

Q: b) Unpolarized light of intensity 20 W icm' is incident on two polarizing filters. The axis of the…

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Q: A beam of initially unpolarized light of intensity 219 W/m^2 passes through two polarizing filters…

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Q: Nonpolarized sunlight hits the pair of sunglasses you're wearing. If we can treat the glasses as an…

A: The light wave gets linearly polarized with the electric field vector oscillating along a direction…