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Figure represents a glass plate placed vertically on a horizontal table with a beam of unpolarised light falling on its surface at the polarising angle of `57^@` with the normal. The electric vector in the reflected light on screen S will vibrate with respect to the plane of incidence in a

A

vertical plane

B

horizontal plane

C

plane making an angle of `45^@` with the vertical

D

plane meking an angle of `57^@` with the horizontal .

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