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Which equation best represents the intensity of light coming out of a secondpolarizing filter is equal to the intensity of polarized light coming out of a firstpolarizing filter multiplied by the cosine, squared, of the angle between thepolarizing axes of the two filters?

Which equation best represents the intensity of light coming out of a secondpolarizing-example-1

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Let the angle between the polarizing axes of the two filters be


\theta

Let the intensity of polarized light coming out of the first polarizing filter be I1.

Then the intensity of the second polarizing filter will be


I_2=I_1cos^2\theta

Thus, the correct option is B.

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