Linearly Polarized Light Wave

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Linearly Polarized Light Wave: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Linearly Polarised Light Waves, Polaroids, Construction of Polaroid, Working of Polaroid, Pass-Axis of a Polaroid, Passage of Light Through Two Polaroids, Role of Polariser, Role of Analyser, etc.

Important Questions on Linearly Polarized Light Wave

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The angle at which the intensity of transmitted light becomes maximum when a polarising sheet is rotated between two crossed polaroids is
[θ is the angle between transmission axes of first and middle polaroid]

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For a given polariser, the polarising angle is 45°. Choose the angle of incidence for which the ray of light will get partially reflected.

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Which of the following is uniaxial crystal?

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Unpolarized light is incident on a Polaroid of refractive index 1.2. What should be the angle of incidence such that the reflected and refracted rays are r to each other?

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A polarised light of intensity 35 Wm-2 is incident on the analyzer at a certain angle, if the transmitted beam has an intensity of 30 Wm-2, the made with the vertical is-

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A polaroid with molecules aligned vertically would have polarization axis in the________.

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A Nicol prism is based on the action of:

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A polarized light of intensity 40 Wm-2 is incident on the analyser at a certain angle. if the transmitted beam has an intensity of 20 Wm-2, the angle made with the vertical is _____

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 What principle is responsible for the fact that certain sunglasses can reduce glare from reflected surfaces?

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Suppose transmitted light waves coming from the analyser. SO, when will the coming waves changes?

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In what direction we can move the analyser in an experiment?

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Analyser can also act as polariser in a polarisation experiment.

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In the experiment of the polarisation, where do we have to put analyser?

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What is main usage of the analyser?

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Two polaroids are crossed to each other. When one of them is rotated through 60°, then what percentage of the incident unpolarized light will be transmitted by the polaroids?

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Plane polarized light is passed through a polaroid. On viewing through the polaroid, we find that when the polaroid is given one complete rotation about the direction of the light, one of the following is observed,

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A Polaroid is placed at 45° to an incoming light of intensity I0. Now, the intensity of light passing through Polaroid after polarization would be

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A ray of light is incident on the surface of a glass plate at an angle of incidence equal to Brewster's angle ϕ. If μ represents the refractive index of glass with respect to air, then the angle between reflected and refracted rays is

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The angle of incidence of light at the interface of two dielectric media which results into zero reflection is called

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A beam of light strikes a piece of glass at an angle of incidence of 60° and the reflected beam is completely plane polarised. The refractive index of the glass is -