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Assertion (A) : The unpolarised light an...

Assertion (A) : The unpolarised light and polarized light can be distinguished from each other by using Polaroid.
Reason (R ) : A Polaroid is capable of producing plane polarized beams of light.

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When a polaroid is rotated in the path of unpolarised light, the intensity of light transmitted from polaroid remain undiminished (because unpolarised light contains waves vibrating in all possible planes with equal probability) However when the polarised is rotated in path of plane polarised light, its intensity will vary from maximum (when the vibrations of the plane polarised light are parallel to the axis of the polaroid) to minimum (when the direction of the vibrations becomes perpendicular to the axis of the crystall) Thus, using polaroid we can easily verify that whether the light is polarised or not.
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