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A light whose electric field vectors are completely removed by using a good polaroid, allowed to incident on the surface of the prism at Brewster's angle. Choose the most suitable option for the phenomenon related to the prism.

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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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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The Brewsters angle ib for an interface should be
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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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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 :
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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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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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An unpolarized light beam is incident on the polarizer of a polarization experiment and the intensity of light beam emerging from the analyzer is measured as 100 Lumens. Now, if the analyzer is rotated around the horizontal axis (direction of light) by 30° in clockwise direction, the intensity of emerging light will be _______Lumens.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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A camera filled with a polarizer is placed on a mountain, in a manner to record only the reflected image of the sun from the surface of a sea as shown in the figure. If the sun rises at 6.00 AM and sets at 6.00 PM during the summer, then at what time in the afternoon will the recorded image have the lowest intensity, assuming there are no clouds and intensity of the sun at the sea surface is constant throughout the day? (Refractive index of water =1.33)

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A ray of light travelling in impure water is incident on a glass plate immersed in it. When the angle of incidence is 51°, the reflected ray is totally plane polarized. Given that refractive index of impure water is 1.4. The refractive index of glass should be _____ tan51°=1.235
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(i) Interference (P) Coherent sources
(ii) Brewster's Law (Q) μ=1sinC
(iii) Malus Law (R) μ=tanθp
(iv) Total Internal reflection (S) I=I0cos2θ
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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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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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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: