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For a glass plate (refractive inddex, 1.6) as a polarier, what is the angle of incidence at which reflected light will be completely polarised?

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`tan i_(p)=n therefore` The polarising angle, `i_(p) = tan^(-1)n`
`=tan^(-1)1.6 ~=58^(@)`
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