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Cambridge AS & A Level Physics

7.5Polarisation

Polarisation in Cambridge AS & A Level Physics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 7.5.1Associate polarisation with transverse waves.
  2. 7.5.2Use Malus's law for plane-polarised waves passing through one or more polarising filters.

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  • Polarisation and Malus's law

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Polarisation: sample question

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Plane-polarised light of intensity 40 W m−240\ \text{W m}^{-2} is incident on a polarising filter whose transmission axis is at 60∘60^\circ to the plane of polarisation. What is the transmitted intensity?

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