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How much ordinary light will an ideal Polaroid transmit?

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How much ordinary light will an ideal Polaroid transmit?

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How much ordinary light will an ideal Polaroid transmit?

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A light is said to be unpolarised which contains many of the polarized waves each of which oscillate in their own plane, ordinary light is unpolarized. Individual photons of the unpolarized light are polarized, but these photons oscillate in different directions, which results in the light beam not being polarized as a whole.

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