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Chapter 25, Problem 33P
25.6 Polarization and light reflection
* An unpolarized beam of light passes through two polarizing sheets that are initially aligned so that the transmitted beam is maximal. By what angle should the second polarized sheet be rotated relative to the first to reduce the transmitted intensity to (a) one-half and (b) one-tenth the intensity that was transmitted through both polarizing sheets when aligned?
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A beam of unpolarised light is sent through two polarizing sheets placed one on top of the other. The
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An unpolarized beam of light (intensity (0) is moving in the x-direction.
The light passes through three ideal polarizers whose transmission
axes are (in order) at angles 0.0°, 53.0°, and 30.0° counterclockwise
from the y-axis in the yz-plane.
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light transmitted by the last polarizer?
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A beam of polarized light of intensity 10 passes through a sheet of ideal polarizing material. The
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