Two polarizing sheets have their transmission axes crossed and a third sheet is inserted so that its transmission axis makes an angle with that of the first sheet as in Problem 49 Find the intensity of the transmitted light as a function of Show that the intensity transmitted through all three shee...

Let I n be the intensity after the n th polarizing sheet Since the inco ...

Two polarizing sheets have their transmission axes crossed and a third sheet is inserted so that its

Question:

Two polarizing sheets have their transmission axes crossed and a third sheet is inserted so that its transmission axis makes an angle θ with that of the first sheet as in Problem 49. Find the intensity of the transmitted light as a function of θ. Show that the intensity transmitted through all three sheets is maximum when θ = 45^o.