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(i) State law of Malus.
(ii) Draw a graph showing the variation of intensity (I) of polarised light transmitted by an analyser with angle (straight theta) between polarizer and analyser.
(iii) What is the value of refractive index of a medium of polarising angle 60o?


i) Law of Malus states that when a completely plane polarised light beam is incident on an analyser, the intensity of the emergent light varies as the square of the cosine of the angle between the plane of transmission of the analyser and the polariser.

                               I = Io cos2straight theta
ii) The variation of intensity (I) of polarised light transmitted by an analyser with angle straight theta.


iii) According to the Brewster's law, we have

straight mu space equals space tan space straight i subscript straight p

straight mu space equals space tan space 60 to the power of straight o

straight mu space equals space square root of 3

The refractive index of the material is 1.73
 
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