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23 Jan 2022
Given information
Four polarisers are placed in succession with their axes
vertical, at 30.0° to the vertical, at 60.0° to the vertical, and
at 90.0° to the vertical.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
We will instinctively say that removing the first or last polariser will not decrease the intensity.
In the initial setup the intensity is given by
When the first polariser is removed, the second polariser becomes the first, leaving only two polarisers to lessen the intensity. The intensity would be
This will be the case if last polariser is removed.
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