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A beam of vertically polarised monochromatic light is incident on a polarising filter. When the transmission axis is vertical, the transmitted beam has the same intensity as the incident beam. The filter is now positioned with its transmission axis at angle θ to the vertical, as shown in Fig. 5.2.
The ratio (intensity of transmitted light)/(intensity of incident light) is equal to 0.75.
Calculate angle θ.
9702/02/SP/22Cambridge International AS & A Level Physics 9702 · Specimen 2022 · Paper 2 · Question 5(b)(i)

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