Saturday 16 March 2013

POLARIMETRY - Q3


3) What do you understand by polarized light and the plane of polarization?
Ans: The figure shows a light wave propagating along the X-axis. The electric field vector E is confined to the YZ-plane. Let us assume that it is along the Y-axis. The magnetic field vector B is along the Z-axis. Then the wave light is polarized light and XY-plane is the plane of polarization.

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