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Brewster Angle - what is the polarization state of the transmitted wave?
When unpolarized light is incident at Brewster's angle, what I understand is that the reflected wave is S-polarized. What is the polarization state of the transmitted (refracted) part of the wave?
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What are the properties of the partially polarized light on refraction?
When a ray of ordinary light is passed on the water's surface, the reflected light will be completely polarized (vibrations in one plane).
My question is what will be the plane of vibration in the ...
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Why does light not polarise off metallic surface?
I am aware that light partially polarizes upon reflection off a non-metallic surface, however, why is it that this only occurs for non-metallic surfaces?
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What will be the state of polarization?
When unpolarized light incident on the first polarizer, the light becomes plane-polarized with intensity equal to half of the initial value and the plane of polarization is parallel to the optic axis ...
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Double refraction in Calcite Crystal
In the above text it is mentioned that the incident light ray travels along the principal section.But any ray which travels along the principal axis should not go through the double refraction. Then ...
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How does Dipole coupling affect macroscopic polarizability and refractive index
I have taken some measurements of refractive index (refractometer (commercial Brix meter), nD20 i.e. 20 degrees C and 589 nm) and density of sucrose/water mixtures and also of ethanol/water mixtures.
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Is true black possible?
Black is the absence of light because it absorbs light, but when we create black paint or black objects, light is always reflected, either in all directions in matte or smoothly in shiny black objects,...
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What is an example of experimental confirmation of Fresnel equations?
I have been reading about Fresnel equations, but I am struggling to find a single experiment where it was experimentally demonstrated that indeed polarised light follows the function predicted by ...
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What polarizes a rainbow?
What polarizes the light from a rainbow. I already did some search and couldn't get a clear answer. All I could find was the light is polarized on the direction light is entering. What happens to the ...
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Polarization of light and Brewster's angle in internal reflection
In almost all sources I read so far, Brewster's angle is defined for light incident on an optically denser medium from an optically rarer medium. Is the concept of Brewster's angle applicable when ...
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If the Brewster's angle is considered to happen with no reflection, then how is the refraction angle considered to be 90°?
So basically my questions are these:
Is the refraction angle always 90 in relation to Brewster's angle?
And if the refraction angle is the angle between the reflected ray and the ray that passed the ...
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How do I use a sunstone? How does it work?
I have acquired two pieces of Icelandic Spar (optical calcite) with surface and internal fractures that should be serviceable as sunstones.
I have observed the double refraction and cancelling double ...
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Polarization by reflection - Brewster's angle
When incident light hits an interface of a dielectric surface at the Brewster angle, I understand that it will result in the generation of a perfectly polarized(horizontally) reflective ray and a ...
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Electromagnetism Permeability of vacuum [duplicate]
How vacuum could have electromagnetism Permeability when there is no molecule in it.
(Permeability of other medium get describe with effect of their polar or magnetic molecule)
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Why exactly does light bend when it enters a different medium? [duplicate]
Simply: what happens to the electric(and magnetic) fields when it enters the medium? How does it interact with the molecules and how this interaction leads to the bending of light?
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