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State and obtain Malus' law.

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When a beam of plane polarised light of intensity `I_0` is incident on an analyser, the light transmitted of intensity I from the analyser varies directly as the square of the cosine of the angle `theta` between the transmission axis of polariser and analyser. This is known as Malus’ law.
` I = I_0 cos^2 theta`
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