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Two polaroids and are placed with their polaroid axes to each other as shown in the figure. A plane polarised light passes through the polaroid and after passing through it, intensity of light becomes . What is the intensity of finally transmitted light, after passing through the polaroid ?

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The intensity of the transmitted light varies directly as the square of the cosine of the angle between the transmission direction of polariser and the analyser.
Intensity of finally transmitted light after passing through the polaroid B is given by (Intensity)
where, is the maximum intensity of transmitted light.
Intensity of finally transmitted light after passing through the polaroid B is given by (Intensity)
where, is the maximum intensity of transmitted light.
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