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    Polarization By Reflection And Brewster's Law - Practice Questions & MCQ

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    The angle of incidence at which reflected light is totally polarized for reflection from air to glass (refractive index, n), is

     

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    Polarization of light by reflection

     Brewster’s law- 

    Brewster discovered that when a beam of unpolarized light is reflected from a transparent medium (refractive index $=\mu$ ), the reflected light is completely plane polarised at a certain angle of incidence (called the angle of polarisation i.e $\theta_p$ ).

    And also $\mu=\tan \theta_p$.
    i.e For $i=\theta_P$
    reflected rays will be completely polarised.
    For $i<\theta_P$ or $i>\theta_P$
    reflected rays will be partially polarised.

     

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