Two sheets of polarizing material are placed with their transmission axes at right angles to one another.

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Two sheets of polarizing material are placed with their transmission axes at right angles to one another. A third polarizing sheet is placed between them with its transmission axis at 45 ° to the axes of the other two.
(a) If un-polarized light of intensity I0 is incident on the system, what is the intensity of the transmitted light?
(b) What is the intensity of the transmitted light when the middle sheet is removed?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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