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Two polaroids are placed in the path of unpolarized beam of intensity I0 such that no light is emitted from the second polaroid. If a third polaroid whose polarization axis makes an angle θ with the polarization axis of first polaroid, is placed between these polaroids then the intensity of light emerging from the last polaroid will be :

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A polarizer - analyser set is adjusted such that the intensity of light coming out of the analyser is just 10% of the original intensity. Assuming that the polarizer - analyser set does not absorb any light, the angle by which the analyser needs to be rotated further, to reduce the output intensity to zero, is
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Two Polaroids P1 and P2 are placed with their axis perpendicular to each other. Unpolarised light with intensity I0  is incident on P1. A third polaroid P3 is kept in between P1 and P2 such that its axis makes an angle 45o with that of P1. The intensity of transmitted light through P2 is
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A system of three polarizers P1,P2,P3 is set up such that the pass axis of P3 is crossed with respect to that of P1 . The pass axis of P2 is inclined at 60o to the pass axis of P3. When a beam of unpolarized light of intensity Io is incident on P1, the intensity of light transmitted by the three polarizers is I . The ratio Io/I equals (nearly):
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The Brewsters angle ib for an interface should be
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Unpolarized light of intensity I is incident on a system of two polarizers, A followed by B. The intensity of emergent light is I2 . If a third the polarizer C is placed between A and B the intensity of emergent light is reduced to I3 . The angle between the polarizers A and C is θ , then
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A beam of plane polarized light of large cross-sectional area and uniform intensity of 3.3 W m2 falls normally on a polarizer (cross-sectional area 3×104 m2), which rotates about its axis with an angular speed of 31.4 rad s-1. The energy of light passing through the polarizer per revolution, is close to:
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Unpolarized light of intensity I passes through an ideal polariser A. Another identical polariser B is placed behind A. The intensity of light beyond B is found to be I2. Now another identical polariser C is placed between A and B. The intensity beyond B is now found to be I8 . The angle between polariser A and C is
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Unpolarised red light is incident on the surface of a lake at incident angle θR. An observer seeing the light reflected from the water surface through a polariser notices that on rotating the polariser, the intensity of light drops to zero at a certain orientation. The red light is replaced by unpolarised blue light. The observer sees the same effect with reflected blue light at incident angle θB.

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A beam of unpolarised light of intensity I0 is passed through a polaroid A and then through another polaroid B which is oriented so that its principle plane makes an angle of 45 o relative to that of A. The intensity of the emergent light is:
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The polarising angle for transparent medium is θ, v is the speed of light in that medium. Then the relation between θ and v is (c= velocity of light in air)
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Three polaroid sheets P1, P2 and P3 are kept parallel to each other such that the angle between pass axes of P1 and P2 is 45° and that between P2 and P3 is 45°. If unpolarised beam of light of intensity 128 W m-2 is incident on P1. What is the intensity of light coming out of P3 ?
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Unpolarized light of intensity I0 is incident on surface of a block of glass at Brewster's angle. In that case, which one of the following statements is true?
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A ray of unpolarised light is incident on the glass surface of refractive index 1.73 at polarizing angle. The angle of refraction will be [Take tan60°=1.73 ]
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A transparent medium shows relation i and r as shown. If the speed of light in vacuum is c, the Brewster angle for the medium is

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A beam of light falls on a system of 4 polaroids, which are arranged in succession, such that the axis of each polaroids makes 30° with the axis of the preceding one. The fraction of the intensity of the incident light that passes through the system is
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When an unpolarized light of intensity I0 is incident on a polarizing sheet, the intensity of light which does not get transmitted is
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In a stạck of three polarising sheets, the first and the third are crossed while the middle one has its axis at 45° to the axes of the other two. The fraction of intensity of an incident unpolarised beam of light that is transmitted by the stack is
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When the angle of incidence on a transparent material is 60°, the reflected light is completely polarised. The velocity of refracted ray inside the material is
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Two circular linear polarisers are placed coaxially. The transmission axis of the first polariser is 30° from the vertical while the second one is at 60°, both in the clockwise sense. If an unpolarised beam of light of intensity, I=20 W m-2 is incident on this pair of polarisers, then the intensities I1 and I2 transmitted by the first and the second polarisers, respectively, will be close to,
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Two beams, A and B of plane polarized light with mutually perpendicular planes of polarization are seen through a polaroid. From the position when the beam A has maximum intensity (and beam B has zero intensity), a rotation of polaroid through 30o makes the two beams appear equally bright. If the initial intensities of the two beams are IA and IB respectively, then I A I B  equals :