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Unpolarised light is incident on two polarizing sheets placed over one another. The intensity of light transmitted finally is one-third of the intensity of the incident light. Calculate the angle between the transmission axes of the two polarizing sheets.

27 Jan 2018
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From our lectures we know that the intensity of transmitted light for these two sheets at an angle $\theta$ is

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