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    Light can be polarized through several methods. Polarization occurs when light vibrates in only one plane. Light is usually unpolarized with vibrations in all planes. Polarization can be achieved through polarizers, reflection at Brewster's angle, and double refraction in anisotropic materials which split light rays into ordinary and extraordinary rays traveling in different directions.

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    Polarization of Light

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    Light can be polarized through several methods. Polarization occurs when light vibrates in only one plane. Light is usually unpolarized with vibrations in all planes. Polarization can be achieved through polarizers, reflection at Brewster's angle, and double refraction in anisotropic materials which split light rays into ordinary and extraordinary rays traveling in different directions.

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    Light can be polarized through several methods. Polarization occurs when light vibrates in only one plane. Light is usually unpolarized with vibrations in all planes. Polarization can be achieved through polarizers, reflection at Brewster's angle, and double refraction in anisotropic materials which split light rays into ordinary and extraordinary rays traveling in different directions.

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    Polarization of light

    - light is an electromagnetic radiation of wavelength visible to the human eye


    -is characterised by the vectors of electric field intensity E and magnetic field intensity B
    (they are perpendicular to each other and also on the direction of propagation of light)
    -is a transverse wave – a wave where the direction of oscillation is perpendicular to the
    direction in which the wave travel

    Most light sources emit light that is unpolarized – the vector of E has all possible directions of
    vibrations

    Polarized light – the vector of E oscillates only in one plane


    Polarization is a property applying to transverse waves that specifies the geometrical
    orientation of the oscillations.
    The methods of producing polarized light:
    The light can be polarized by polaroids (polarizing filters), by reflection, by refraction, by
    double refraction,
    Polarization by POLAROID
    -polaroid is a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarized the light
    - is used as polarizer
    Polarization by reflection and refraction

    If light strikes an interface so that there is a 90o angle between the reflected and refracted rays,
    the reflected light will be linearly polarized. The direction of polarization (the way the electric
    field vectors point)is parallel to the plane of the interface. The special angle of incidence that
    produces a 90o angle between the reflected and refracted ray is called the Brewster angle, qp.

    Polarization of light by double refraction

    - an optical property in which a single ray of unpolarized light entering an anisotropic


    medium is split into two rays, each traveling in a different direction. One ray (called
    the extraordinary ray) is bent, or refracted, at an angle as it travels through the
    medium; the other ray (called the ordinary ray) passes through the medium unchanged
    - Double refraction can be observed by comparing two materials, glass and calcite
    - https://slideplayer.com/slide/5885272/
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvX_AYGRDo
    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJGm2QeX1g
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_C8KyU67RU
    - https://www.facebook.com/telketv/videos/k%C3%BAzeln%C3%A1-fyzika-
    optika/445691743146427/

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