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Chapter 25 Problem 68P

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CE Predict/Explain Consider the two polarization experiments shown in Figure 25–28.

(a) If the incident light is unpolarized, is the transmitted intensity in case A greater than, less than, or the same as the transmitted intensity in case B?

(b) Choose the best explanation from among the following:

The transmitted intensity is the same in either case; the first polarizer lets through one-half the incident intensity, and the second polarizer is at an angle \(\theta\) relative to the first.

Case A has a smaller transmitted intensity than case B because the first polarizer is at an angle \(\theta\) relative to the incident beam.

Case B has a smaller transmitted intensity than case A because the direction of polarization is rotated by an angle \(\theta\) in the clockwise direction in case B.

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Title Physics with MasteringPhysics 4 
Author James S. Walker
ISBN 9780321541635

Consider the two polarization experiments shown in Figure

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