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What is an unpolarised ligth ?Explain with the help of a suitable ray diagram,how an unpolarised light can be polarised by reflection from a transparent medium.Write the expression for Brewster angle in terms of the refractive index of the denser medium.

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MODERN PUBLICATION-Polarisation of Light-EXERCISE
  1. A beam of unpolarised ligth is made to fall,from air ,on its boundary ...

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  2. How does an unpolarised ligth get polarised,when it is pased through a...

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  3. What is an unpolarised ligth ?Explain with the help of a suitable ray ...

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  4. Give a method for producing a beam of plane polarised light.Show how y...

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  5. Can sound waves in air be polarised?

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  6. What is a polaroid?

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  7. What is linearly polarised light?

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  8. What is linearly polarised light?

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  9. What are polariods?Write their four uses.

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  10. Two polaroids are set in corossed positions.A third polaroid is placed...

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  11. Two polaroids are set in corossed positions.A third polaroid is placed...

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  12. What do you understand by polarisation of light ?Describe an experimen...

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  13. Explain Polarisation. Explain the difference between polarised and unp...

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  14. What do you understand by polarsation of light?What information you ge...

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  15. What is meant by plane polarised ligth ?Which type f waves show the pr...

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  16. Define the polarisation angle for polarisation by reflection.

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  17. What do you mean by polarisationof light?

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  18. Differentiate betwen polarised an unpolarised light .How are these rep...

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  19. A beam of unpolarised light is incident on the boundary between two tr...

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  20. Which special characteristic of ligth is demonstrated only by the phen...

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