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Malus' law: It states that the intensity of polarised light transmitted through the analyser varies as a square of cosine of the angle between the plane of transmission of analyser and polariser. `I alpha cos^(2) theta, I=I_(0) cos^(2) theta`.
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    A
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    A
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    B
    `A-G, B-H, C-E, D-F`
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