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A beam of light is passed through a polaroid and the latter is rotated with the beam of light as axis. The intensity of the emergent light varies between a maximum and a minimum. Then the light used is

A

a mixture of elliptically polarised and unpolarised light only

B

elliptically polarised light only

C

Either (1) or (2)

D

Neither (1) nor (2).

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