CBSE Class 12 · 2010 · Wave OpticsVery Short Answer

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What is unpolarized light? Explain with the help of a suitable ray diagram how an unpolarized light can be polarized by reflection from a transparent medium. Write the expression for Brewster angle in terms of the refractive index of the denser medium.

Solution

light in which the electric field vibrates with equal probability in all directions in the plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
when unpolarized light is incident on a transparent surface, the reflected and refracted components are partially polarized. At a particular angle of incidence, the polarising angle , the reflected ray is completely plane polarized with vibrations parallel to the reflecting surface (perpendicular to the plane of incidence); at this angle the reflected and refracted rays are mutually perpendicular.


where is the refractive index of the denser medium with respect to the rarer medium.

CBSE Class 12 Board · 2010 · Subjective

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