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Question
State law of Malus.
Solution
Law of Malus:
It states that when a completely plane polarised light beam is incident on an analyzer, the intensity of the emergent light varies as the square of the cosine of the angle between the plane of transmission of the analyzer and the polarizer.
I = I0cos2θ
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