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When a beam of plane polarised light is incident on an analyser, the intensity of light transmitted from analyser varies directly as square of cosine of angle between the planes of transmission of analyser and polariser is given by___________.

A

(A) Brewster’s law

B

(B) Malus’ law

C

(C) Snell’s law

D

(D) Bragg’s law

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