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A beam of unpolarised light is passed first through tourmaline crystan A and then through another tourmaline crystal B oriented so that its principal plane is parallel to that of A. The intensity of the emergent light is I. If A now rotated by `45^(@)` in a plane perpendicular to the direction of the incident ray, the intensity of the emergent light will be

A

`2I_0`

B

`I_0/2`

C

`I_0/4`

D

`I_0/sqrt2`

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