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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 causes these rainbow effects using a polarizing filter on an airplane?
I know that light reflected from a surface at 45° is polarized and that for a similar reason skylight arriving from a direction orthogonal to the sun is polarized too.
Photographers make use of this ...
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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 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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