Fundamentals of Physics Extended
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Chapter 33, Problem 84P
Three polarizing sheets are stacked. The first and third are crossed; the one between has its polarizing direction at 45.0° to the polarizing directions of the other two. What fraction of the intensity of an originally unpolarized beam is transmitted by the slack?
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